These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

“I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree. ”

“He'd wanted to track down and personally injure anyone who had ever done harm t…”

“If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.”

“But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't eve…”