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Never be mean just because you can be. Never mistake kindness for weakness.
But your mother buys a lot of crap from eBay. And we move basically every third year. That’s a lot of stuff that needs to be carried. And, what the hell, sometimes you just want someone to play video games with. A best friend is good to have.
Someone who knows who you were when you were fifteen. Someone you don’t need to explain everything to. Someone you can drink whisky and lie with. Someone you can call up and say, ‘Want to watch the game tonight?’ Or ‘I was thinking of test-driving a car over the weekend, want to come along and finish all of my sentences with that’s what SHE said!?’
My friend R and I call one another and talk for hours about all the stuff people talk about, kids and work and love and things you dream about and things that scare the shit out of you. He was the best man at my wedding. He’s been my best man since we were fifteen.
because E didn’t want me to go home and call the guys I only ever got drunk with.
Not because the music itself is so important. But because all the rest of it is.
I mean that this love didn’t grow on me, it knocked me over. It’s an ongoing state of emergency.
I lumber through life with my hands in my pockets; she dances.
But your mother is a vegetarian. And she still chose me.
I’m blunt and sharp and full of black and white. She’s all my colour.
I hope you get to read and hear all of them, because there’s something so special in that experience, in falling in love with words. Feeling them like fluttering butterflies beneath your skin. Like whirlwinds in your head. Like a punch to the gut.
‘Life’s a game of inches.’
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
can’t even be given a nice watch without going off and getting myself shot.
Life is all about small margins. A few inches here and there.
when I had to teach myself all over again to stand in line at the supermarket without having a panic attack.
She was the one who really took that bullet. Don’t ever forget that.
Most people never get to find out that they aren’t immortal.
