This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.
People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.
The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!
We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.
As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.