They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.