I tell the truth, but I don’t need to divulge everything. - Eric Garcia

Like me, he would turn to the one thing that had always sustained him through difficult times, the one piece of hide-saving equipment with which the military way of life had vested us:
We could kill people and not care all that much.

True loneliness, I learned that day, isn’t the lack of others. It’s the lack of others quickly.

When Melinda filed for divorce, she wrote down only two words as her reason for seeking a dissolution of our two-year marriage: Incontrovertibly self-absorbed. Or is that three words? No matter. The question I have is: Did she mean me or her?