I can’t understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching.

I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend....

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think...

We only understand the true love of our lives when we bound ourself within the boundries of right and wrong.

They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it.

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.

This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or...

It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this….