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We’re all trying, in our own ways, to parse what we may have done wrong.

On this small island, everyone knows who comes, especially who goes.

Mr. Holt had grown old since Beverly last saw him. He looked weary.

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens her first rose

When I wasn’t teaching social studies, I basically lived on my balcony.

Maybe all of it was possible. Maybe it all could work out.

It was half the Spanish he knew—stop, I have a shotgun.

My children, children, remember to let me go, delete my number.

I grip the handlebar and pin my eyes shut, waiting for the inevitable crash.

She pulls quickly on her cigarette and blows it at me through the phone.

I want to dispute that depression is by definition pathological.

The ego with which we began filters away as love accumulates below.

Both Sherlock Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

It begins on the sunny morning of November 14, 1960.

For the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air.

It’s a mistake to be here, he thinks, but he doesn’t turn around.

“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

“I suppose there have been a good many men killed in this room.”

She is a stalk, exhausted. She will surround these bones with flesh.

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

In that instant, Niel lost one of the most beautiful things in his life.

“Ki-Tae the famous pastor,” Jae says to her. “Can you believe life.”

I felt that this maternal oblivion could be the rest of my life.

The underworld reached out for your hand and found payment.

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

“I can’t hold it any longer. I have to pee,” I finally confessed to Viola.

The flail is raised high, back bent in echo of the boys’ backs.

He thinks with joy and conviction that the Japanese are his enemy.