Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

by Alison Espach

But I knew then that anybody who chose to be alone had no idea what it really meant to be alone.

you can stop loving someone if you need to. You can stamp love out of your brain like a tiny fire.

Their careers are all about pretending to know things they don’t really know that well.

Knowledge is power, including knowledge a person pretends to have.

“That’s what happens when parents die,” he says. “All of a sudden, you want an answer to every question you never thought to ask them.”