So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.
depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.
I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.
The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.