friendship was always contingent.

“Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn'…”

“I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small s…”

“Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets…”

“When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept insi…”