And I’d noticed her eyes, the lightest blue, and alive, moving here and there and then staring straight on. And now there’s darkness under her eyes like she hasn’t slept well for too many days,...

The digging continues … Ground Zero it looks more and more like a construction site. Too much of the horror is gone. No fire. No smoke … What was war becomes peace, becomes peaceful. But...

I try to remember everything, every thing, but sometimes I forget something. I don’t even know what it is sometimes, but I know it’s not coming to me, something about him isn’t coming to me...

We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it’s clear we’re avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you’re it

Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.

Let’s take a walk. You can show me some of your memories and I’ll show you some of mine.

He wanted to break me, the me I’d made, the me I’d needed to make, my need, mine, my whole life since I could remember. I didn’t want to hear him that night. When I...

Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.

She takes another sip of her drink. She looks around the bar. I look at the fine muscles in her neck, at the two points of her clavicle. Her grief has not so much changed...

She can look at you and make you feel like you’re the only one in the world. Even if it’s not true, she can make you feel that way. And with her child, it would...