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October 13 - October 15, 2025
Elizabeth is always alone now. Always alone, and never alone: that was grief.
Trouble is much like love: when the time is ready, it will find you.
“The pain is temporary, but the lesson the pain teaches you is forever.”
“When we have a dilemma”—his KitKat story is true, by the way, but is maybe for another time—“we ask the person who will give us the answer we already know.
How many men like Jasper sit behind beige front doors in quiet bungalows, not knowing how to dress or what to eat or where to go? Wanting above all else not to be a nuisance? Joyce wishes she could save them all.
“When old friends die, you’re furious, because you’ve never quite finished what you were saying to them.”
“What happened” is never what defines you in life; “What you did next” is what defines you.
“Just an old piece of paper with random letters and numbers on it. It looked the real deal, I made sure of that, but if they’d ever tried to cash it out, it’d be worth the square root of bugger all.”
Aut neca aut necare. Kill or be killed.
When things are noisy, and everyone is asking you to look at something right this instant, we mustn’t forget all the things still going on in quiet corners. There’s the news, and then there’s life.
