"For he who sins a second time Wakes a dead soul to pain, And draws it from its spotted shroud, And makes it bleed again, And makes it...

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward...

"We were soon joined by Elizabeth. Time had altered her since I last beheld her; it had endowed her with loveliness surpassing the beauty...

"But is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It...

"The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the...

"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to...

"Rising to the shallows, out of the depths from whence she swam, some foresaw it in the stars, some read it in the tarots, those that...

"And the end of it all is that I have got to forgive you. I must do so. I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but...

"I cannot reconstruct my letter, or rewrite it. You must take it as it stands, blotted in many places with tears, in some with the signs...

I'm not well As you can tell By the way I haven't looked you in the eye And I'm about to lie And say I'm fine But inside, you and I know...

"By the terrible alchemy of egotism you converted your remorse into rage." — Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

I'll write down another conversation we will never have, except this time I don't wish we could have it. On a random Wednesday morning, I...

I still get sad seeing your pictures online, very sad. I saw both of you today, as in both of your pictures. I was sad all of a sudden,...

(I gather that you think I am somewhat ignorant or naive. You do not trust my judgment, at least not initially. It is impossible to have...

The self-soothing gestures are a bad sign. Hug me once you see them. As I move to hug the bones ratling beneath my skin, hold me tight....

I want you to know her, that girl, yes, her with a back made of steel. She's never known joy, that girl, standing there. Her eyes always...

You are my child. I had you in my arms when I was a child. You nursed my soul when they hurt me. I pulled you closer to my chest. They...

It is inescapable for now. I have nowhere to go, and my panic found a new outlet in shaky vocal cords. Just mention the word, mention...

She will manage it somehow. That "somehow" is my heavy breathing. It is these sweaty hands and sleepless nights. It means I have to...

These last years, I've seen myself turn to bleak isolation. Isolation needn't be bleak, but I know mine was. Eventually, I talked more....