Unlike the street above, this bar doesn’t scream money; it whispers wealth.
“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
“How is it that the world keeps going, breathing in and out unchanged, while in my soul there is a permanent scattering?”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“Five tacos—Aaron had gotten me five and not four, like I had told him.”
― The Spanish Love Deception
― The Spanish Love Deception
“For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“Another revelation: how much laughter is a part of grief. Laughter is tightly braided into our family argot, and now we laugh remembering my father, but somewhere in the background there is a haze of disbelief. The laughter trails off. The laughter becomes tears and becomes sadness and becomes rage. I am unprepared for my wretched, roaring rage. In the face of this inferno that is sorrow, I am callow and unformed.”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
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