It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.

Keep passing the open windows.

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action