Personal Growth
Eternal Life
She asked me how I felt about eternal life & I said, would I have the same aches & pains I have now because that would factor heavily into my decision.
Eternal Reward
Of course I believe in heaven, my grandma used to say. There’s got to be some reward for living with your grandfather for all these years.
Exact Centers
This is one of the exact centers of the universe & it’s in charge of a lot of the beautiful & amazing things we’ll take for granted in the future.
Extrovert
Moving briskly along because introspection gives her a stomach ache.
Epiphany
She saw herself reflected in the store window & then the sun changed & she disappeared & all she could see was her eyes & she remembered thinking, I make a very nice floor lamp & that was the day she decided to quit her job.
Enough Fluid
I try not to cry about everything I’ve done wrong she said, because I don’t get enough fluids as it is already.
Enough Time (Feminine)
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
Enough Time (Masculine)
Everything changed the day he figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in his life.
Enough Time (No Gender)
Everything changed the day I figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in my life.
Early Life
I try & get a lot of living in early in the morning before everyone else gets up, because after that, it doesn’t seem so much like living as it does putting up with stuff.
Easy Option
I’m not that good at live & let live, she told me, when it’s just as easy to avoid & then I don’t even have to think about it.
Egg Coffee
He told me the best way to make coffee was to add an egg, so I did & he looked at the strands floating in his cup & decided to have tea instead.
Discretion
I think if I was a woman, he told me, I’d have sex a lot more than all the women I know & I’d definitely stay away from people like me & my friends
Down Time
I can read minds, she said & I said, OK & she said, Do you want to know what you’re thinking? I said no thank you. I don’t do stuff like that on weekends.
Dress up
It’s the only time I feel like me, she said, & everyone else just thinks it’s dress-up.
Delayed Gratification
the real problem with details is there’s so many of them
Different Place
Thinks about moving to someplace else where everything is different enough to be fun again.
Different Plans
I don’t know how long I can do this, he said. I think the universe has different plans for me & we sat there in silence & I thought to myself that this is the thing we all come to & this is the thing we all fight & if we are lucky enough to lose, our lives become beautiful with mystery again & I sat there silent because that is not something that can be said.
Disappearing
The day he first told me he was starting to disappear I didn’t believe him & so he stopped & held his hand up to the sun & it was like thin paper in the light & finally I said you seem very calm for a man who is disappearing & he said it was a relief after all those years of trying to keep the pieces of his life in one place. Later on, I went to see him again & as I was leaving, he put a package in my hand. This is the last piece of my life, he said, take good care of it & then he smiled & was gone & the room filled with the sound of the wind & when I opened the package there was nothing there & I thought there must be some mistake or maybe I dropped it & I got down on my hands & knees & looked until the light began to fade & then slowly I felt the pieces of my life fall away gently & suddenly I understood what he meant & I lay there for a long time crying & laughing at the same time.
Day Break
liking each other because it’s a beautiful day & it seems like a waste of time to disagree about stuff the other one is refusing to change out of sheer stubbornness