These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.

“He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends …”

“You okay in there?""No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.”

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and nev…”

“Just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn'…”