"I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction."
- Jael McHenry
"there is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they'll get there."
"I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices."
"I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind."
"I'm completely out of control, and I can hear the beginnings of the chant, get/out/, but now that I'm not being touched maybe I can master it and I shut the world out: separating an orange into skinle..."
"I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe."
"It preoccupies me until it's time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever small way I can, I will tear myself apart. They've taken what's on the inside and made..."
"All I have besides food is grief."
"If you don’t know how to deal with emotion, other people’s feelings can hit you like a drug."
"Heartbreak is stupid and impossible. Hearts don't break. Hearts squeeze, they wrench, they ache, they shrivel. Hearts pull apart in wet chunks like canned tomatoes."