but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

“A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men.…”

“In a better world I would have kissed her over the ice trays and that would hav…”

“on the plane he had been confident. He'd talked to the vieja near the aisle, te…”

“It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in V…”