A Little Bit Of Your Ghost

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath.”

“Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Some things that don’t happen keep disasters from happening.”

“Stay single until someone actually complements your life in a way that makes it better not to be single. If not, it’s not worth it.”

““Although it is such a singular word, there are many variations of alone. There is the alone of an empty bench at twilight. There is the alone of an empty hotel room. There is the alone of being caught in a throng of people. There is the alone of missing a particular person. And there is the alone of being with a particular person and realizing you are still alone.””

““My conversation is probably something like the rain. On some days it pours, and then on other days there’s just a clear sky- not a word in sight.””

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.”

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

“““Was” or “am”? What is the word for things you were and no longer are but always will be?”””

““If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I’ll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it’s yours.””

“Dogs’ lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you’re going to lose a dog, and there’s going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can’t support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There’s such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware it comes with an unbearable price. Maybe loving dogs is a way we do penance for all the other illusions we allow ourselves and for the mistakes we make because of those illusions.”