That's about it. In the months that follow you bend to the work. Because it feels like hope, like grace--- and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

“Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.”

“Stared at the toothpick-thin blackgirl who worked at the Friendly's, whom he wa…”

“But take heart: For every phalanx of nerds who die there are always a few who s…”

“When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-tim…”