I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.