It Chooses You

We thanked each other many times. It was unclear why we were so thankful – it had to have been for totally different reasons, or maybe just the shared high of communion.

Trying to see things that are invisible but nearby has always been alluring to me.

I was so young then that I couldn’t presume murder wasn’t in my future too. It seemed unlikely, but so did everything.

You get used to it after a while. Look at the colors. Our creator just has an unbelievable imagination.

They were small, but they no longer seemed cute; there was a strong man inside of each one.

The moral of these people was clear to me: if you spend your life endlessly cruising around the world, never stopping to plant children on dry land, then when you die some Greek woman you don’t even know will become the steward of your legacy. And when she wants more room in her house, she sells your legacy in the PennySaver. And no one wants it.

The gate began rolling open, I slipped through, but it kept opening. Even after I was seated inside across from Don, in his den, I could still hear the gate opening.

like an obsessive-compulsive angel, working furiously on the side of good.

Number two was person. Number three was year. Number 320 was future. The Future.