It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".

(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.