You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not...

She would (if she could) put her arm around the girl she’d been and try to tell her Take it easy, but the girl would not have listened. The girl had no receptors for Take...

He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It’s too late for either of us to make another old friend.

Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.

I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It’s somebody else’s turn now.