Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth.

Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.

..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands

I lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal?

I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.

Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch that I'd scratched so hard I was bleeding. I had set out to do the impossible, whatever the impossible might be, only to find out that it was living with myself. Suicide became an expiration date, the day after which I no longer had to try.

If the waitress comes, order me a coffee and something that involves bacon.