Status Updates From Praying Drunk

“He asks if I’m still writing a book about him, and I lie, I say yes, and he knows it’s a lie, and I know it’s a lie, and it’s a lie that pleases him, and I wish for more lies, a hundred lies, a thousand beautiful lies, any ugliness that will nourish him.”

“Maybe the biggest fiction I want to create is that it all matters. It matters so much. It matters and matters.”

“Also, I don’t know if I love you.”
“Do you think love is some kind of lightening flash? Like it strikes you and then the reverberations just ring out forever?”