Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land.

Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked. The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.

i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.