5 Quotes by Tess Gallagher

Last of his toothpaste, last of his Wheat Chex, last of his 5-Quick-Cinnamon-Rolls-With-Icing, hisPop Secret Microwave Pop-corn, his Deluxe Fudge Brownie Mix next to myCasbah Nutted Pilaf on the sparsershelf, I'm using it all up. Chanting: he'd-want-me-to-he'd-want-me-to. To consume loss like a hydra-headedmeal of would-have-dones accompanied bymissed-shared-delight. What can I tell you?

I entered this world not wanting to come. I'll leave it not wanting to go. All this while, when it seemed there were two doors, there was only one--this passing through.

In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our commemorative lives.

When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

It is a burden, I’m saying, to live where I live.