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For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

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And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

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There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed OK ...more

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Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.

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Mission accomplished' I said.Pudge my friend we are indefuckingstructable.

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No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

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The silence broke:"Sometimes I liked it", I said "Sometimes I liked it that she was dead.""You mean it felt good?""No. I don't know. It felt ... pure.

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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

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The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

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Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got fl...more

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The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us th...more

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Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning she haunted me, ...more

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The town was paper, but the memories were not.

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What can we do?" Mom asked again.I shrugged.But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couc...more

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The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember ...more