She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.