“Good, bad, they're just words. Who's to decide what is good or bad? In the end, only the consequences matter.”

“Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.”

“...with the company of just myself, my thoughts presented themselves like unwelcome houseguests.”

“I sighed, a deep and heavy sigh. If only sighs could carry all my troubles away.”

“Do you ever lay off the crap or is it all bullshit, all the time with you?”

“I wondered if somehow, without my knowing it, I had been cast in a Lifetime channel movie.”

“We sit in silence for several minutes, and I listen to the sound of his breathing, surprised how something so simple can fill me with contentment.”