Duma Key

Cats like to get babies and old people when they’re asleep. And steal their breath.

muchas gracias.
And you, my old friend Constant Reader; always you.
Stephen King
Bangor, Maine

Sweet bird of youth, flying on afternoon wine coolers.

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

Inside my head, a terrible black-green eye—the color of water at the depth just before all light fails—also turned. It looked at my most secret thoughts, at the place where anger surpasses rage and becomes homicide.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.

life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

the only way to go on is to go on. To say I can do this even when you know you can’t.

Because forgetting isn’t always involuntary. Sometimes it’s willed.

Pain is the biggest power of love.