I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.
The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?" "I'm sure.
I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.
Grief is like sinking, like being buried.
This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must always invent themselves, too.