When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain. - Alexander Chee

It's the shadow on every kiss and every dollar, that it might not be there tomorrow.

To survive, much less succeed, I learned I could not give myself over to either pleasure or misery in excess. Whatever you felt was not important.

Hate is love on fire, set out to burn like a flare on the side of the road. It says, stop here. Something terrible has happened. Envy is like, the skin you're in burns. And the salve is someone else's skin.