You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

by Alethea Black

I know everything is painful right now, and you probably think it’s going to go on like this forever, but there are things you don’t understand, things that haven’t happened yet that are going to change you the way a struck match changes the air.

Life was too full of fantastical things that were true to justify wasting your mind on fantastical things that were not.

“If you dig deep enough, you’re always going to hit that sadness. That sadness is like the water table.”

Still, love creeps in. It creeps in like the violet weed that blankets the highway embankments with blossoms each spring.

The unsick wear their good health so cavalierly.