It wasn’t peaceful, no light at the end of a tunnel or any of that crap. Only fear and regret for all the things I’d left undone.

He’s sad, and sometimes sad comes out as mad.” “Hmm.

How could everyone else find it so simple to slip back into life, the world revolving, businesses opening and closing, buying and selling, when the pillow on the right side of his bed was empty every night? Luke.

It’s the end that marks a beginning, not the first day.

What they don’t know is this: appearing okay is a lot easier than actually being okay. May.

She suddenly hated the tooth fairy, with her fancy little wings and magic wand.

She was doing that thing where she took out her frustrations about something else in her life on the closest victim.

I don’t know how it’s possible to long for home and be glad I’m away from it at the same time, but it is.

Why are little kids’ cheeks so temptingly kissable, especially when they are sleeping?

We’ll come up with a story, a good story, and we’ll tell that instead.