The Whisper Man

by Alex North

Wishing for excitement was wishing for hurt, and Pete had had more than enough of both.

“I love you, Jake.” “Even when we argue?” “Of course. Especially when we argue. That’s when it matters the most.”

She was an equally keen believer in the idea that guilt was about as unhelpful as emotions got. Once you let guilt get ahold of you, the bastard never let go.

If his son’s memory was not literally true, then, like Pete’s own feelings of failure, it presumably still felt true enough, and that was the kind of truth that mattered most in the end.

How long does it take, and how much does a person have to change, before the person you hated is gone, replaced by someone new?

but I remembered my mother telling me that explanations and apologies were almost always for the person making them, and I felt an urge to tell Karen she could make herself feel better on her own time.