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judge people two ways—on how they treat animals, and on what they like to eat. If their favorite food is some kind of salad, they are definitely a bad person. Anything with cheese, they are probably OK.
Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.
Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss. Only the smart people know it.”
“I want you to feel the power of it,” she said. “Of walking away from something you love. Doesn’t it make you feel strong?”
So it was many years before it happened that Mommy began to prepare me for her departure. I understand her better, now. Now I’m a parent I know how afraid you get for your child. Sometimes when I think about Lauren I feel almost see-through with fear, like a pane of glass. When we got home Mommy put me in the bath and gently checked me all over. She found a scratch on my calf where I leaked out red. She drew the flesh back together with two neat sutures from her kit. Breaking me, then mending me, over and over—that was my mother.
Needless Street.
like this kind of place, where you’re in between one thing and another. Hallways, waiting rooms, lobbies and so on; rooms where nothing is actually supposed to happen. It relieves a lot of pressure and lets me think.
The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.
How many times can someone bend before they break forever? You have to take care, dealing with broken things; sometimes they give way, and break others in their turn.
As usual, everyone is relying on the gd cat. Honestly, teds are gd useless.
It’s not your body, Lauren. I am crying now. It’s his. We live in Ted.
“I don’t know where your doctor got them—but I would stop taking them, if I were you. They stopped manufacturing these pills about ten years ago. They have extreme side effects. Hallucinations, memory loss. Some people experience rapid weight gain. I am happy to recommend an alternative.”
Toward the end of our meeting I asked, “What would you like people to know about the disorder, that you don’t feel is understood?” “I’d like people to know that we are always striving toward the good,” they said. “We are always protecting the child.”
