“I’ve read that the dying often wait to be by themselves. They need the freedom to go, with nobody holding them back.”

“I want you to remember this—you and I are in this life together. All the way. We don’t run just because we get sacked a few times.”

“You’re facing it now, and it’s never too late.”

“Because of you. I fell in love with you, Alexis Brown, and Idon’t want to lose you over a glass of champagne.”

“Sometimes a man can be a lot like a farm. He lets his heart lay fallow for a while, and instead of his feelings dying out, they just go dormant, his emotions growing deeper and stronger as time passes. A person only needs to clear away the weeds on the surface to uncover them.”

“Somebody’s going to be reading, right? Wrong. They’re FBing. “Doing a Number Two. Maybe I shouldn’t have had those chilli peppers. Hope y’all having a good day! —Coming from a toilet not far from you. xxxx”

“I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.”