Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic