Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?

“She'd take these random occurrences and elevate them to oracles; she'd pretend …”

“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavio…”

“He swaggered over to my mother, and kissed her so long and slow that my own che…”

“She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't …”