Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

...all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.