“I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.”

“...There's more than one way to die...A heart can still beat when it's broken."BrooksConcilium Series #1”

“I can wield any type of saw out there, and I have to do this, even if it takes me years. That I can even think in terms of a future, is a miracle. Why? Because two and a half years ago, when I was thirty-two years old, I had a heart attack. I used to be the size of a small, depressed cow. The heart attack led to my stomach strangling operation, and I lost 170 pounds. Now I am less than half myself, in more ways than one.”

“Thirty-one years old, and already Naaliyah was more comfortable with insects than people: they were more chemically predictable, more elegantly designed.”

“I set out on a narrow way many years ago, hoping I would find true love along the broken road”

“A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.”