We are all ghosts of our former selves, trying to reconcile our past life with our current life. The future is just the past world bleeding into the present world. 
 (If the Georgia flu hit, I would miss the internet the most. And coffee.) 
 Favorite Quotes 
 [S]he's come to understand that clothes are armor. 
 Cold rain, the sidewalk shining, the shhh of car tires on the wet street. Thinking about the terrible gulf of years between eighteen and fifty. 
 The [argument] had lost all of its sting over the years and had become something like a familiar room where they met. 
 I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected of them. 
 You probably encounter people like him all the time. High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially. 
 First, we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered. 
 This is my soul and the world unwinding, this is my heart in the still winter air.