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He held a screwdriver to the fleshy underside of Peggy’s neck.

A gift tells you who you are and what you’re not in the eyes of others.

He’s got a nice, deep kind of voice. He doesn’t sound redneck at all.

“I can’t die, I don’t want to die, I love life,” Prince Andrei thought.

You don’t feel anything when they cut you, not at first, just the blood.

I can’t see a way out of this. Things will not necessarily get better.

There’s being young and growing old, being here and being gone.

The goose cannot see the North but knows exactly where it lies.

We’ve tried, but it seems it is in the stars for us to hate each other.

So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.

At straight-up noon, the honeymoon was ruined, one day in.

I went for a natural, “I look pretty even when I’m giving birth,” look.

She could not have known how uncannily she resembled me.

It was on a mid-June morning that the stranger first called.

“He’s a mad dog on a chain. You don’t stick your fingers in his mouth.”

Miss Moses smiled, I could take you, buster. Don’t try anything with me.

He whispers words that sound as miraculous as the skinned fish of the clouds my father writhed like pentecostal snakes while he drove drunk

She accused her husband with great drama of having destroyed her life.

Of course he escaped. He would be the one. My legendary brother.

I saw it on her face that day, a look like her heart would drift into the sky.

He said, You have no brother. I didn’t know what he meant. I do now.

“The secret to happiness is not wanting,” Lars told the Buddha.

He was warm that way, always tender, and maybe that’s the worst part.

Let’s walk down to the river, bless the paper boats and turn it all into wine.

My brother stealing all the lightbulbs, my parents live without light.

Think how you move, how a room changes with your smallest breath.

I tell my sister what I didn’t tell my father, I love you. Please, don’t die.

I awakened on my belly—my back a raw field from nape to heels.

My own hunger was for a reduction in the vast space between people.