Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

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'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.