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Maybe God gets nervous in places like this, the way I feel in restaurants with linen napkins, because if he does exist, I don't feel him here.

She is officiating the marriage of two bottles of ketchup; overturning one and balancing it on the mouth of the other so it can empty its shit. The

They hurt me, these small, brutal kindnesses.

If you are anything other than humbled in the presence of love, you are not in the presence of love.

He had always listened to the music of a more sensitive man. She had let several relationship cruelties slide because of it.

Good morning, the city says. Fuck you.

If there were a race among all artists to the human heart, my money would be on music to win. It knows a shortcut.

That they can really haul is what most people don't know about wild turkeys.

That can be the cruelest part of happiness--its tendency to disguise itself in boredom."
- Marie-Helene Bertino, Safe as Houses, title story

A monkey could do my job better and with more hilarious results.

In the jaundiced light of a streetlamp, Sarina realizes why people have children: to see the face of the one they love at the ages they've missed ...

The mark of writing on me is so indelible, a tattoo would be redundant.

You can't say you know a city unless you know three ways to everywhere.

Seeing his face after months was as immediate as a pointed gun.