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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what awoke you? Are bonsai cruel? Do you love what you lo...more

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I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm, what can I say, it hasn't made my life wonderf...more

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Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time....more

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When she woke up crying for one of her nightmares, the Kolker would stay with her, brush her hair with his hands, collect her tears in thimbles for he...more

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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how ...more

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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

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I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, ...more

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I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

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Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I want...more

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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fru...more

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A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He...more

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If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our arg...more

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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.