When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.

“And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.”

“The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he…”

“We’re all under the streetlamps, everyone’s the color of day-old piss. When I’m…”

“They walked him into the cane and then turned him around. He tried to stand bra…”