Sam was alternately distant and clingy and mean, because I am the primary person he banks on and bangs on. I stayed close enough so he could push me away. Sadie slowly floated off.

“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”

“Maybe, I thought, after a few months of sobriety, you could successfully smoke …”

“If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.”

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was tryin…”