I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.
And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
And it hurts her, but it’s an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it’s good, but it hurts.
Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.
Don’t think you haven’t lived long enough to have a story to tell.
It’s always nice when two people who don’t got no one else find each other as friends.
There’s always beauty, if you know where to look.
If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don’t see what the women do.
Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
Why can’t we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?
What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.
We don’t say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can’t say everything, so you don’t say nothing.
I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he’s curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and fall asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.
Life ain’t fair. It ain’t. Not never.
Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It’s a silent fall and it’s weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it’s trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
Dogs don’t got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
She looks at me. She does. She.
To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.