An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they’re the ones doing the tour of duty. The doctors breeze in and out like conquering heroes, but they need...

A woman isn’t all that different from a bonfire. A fire’s a beautiful thing, right? Something you can’t take your eyes off, when it’s burning. If you can keep it contained, it’ll throw light and...

if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don’t need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I’ll come back as catnip.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

You can make it dark, but I can’t make it light.