Nine Lives

The cold nothing that awaits all of us when we finally leave this world.

Happiness is always a temporary state.

And for those of you who say that two wrongs don’t make a right, then I suspect you’re a person who has never been wronged.

A quote from Sense and Sensibility kept running through her head: “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy—it is disposition alone.

The awful thing about loneliness, Jack thought, not for the first time, is that it isn’t always cured by other people.

The note said they were memento mori beads, simple reminders that we are alive only a short time, and that we all have the same fate, to one day rot away.

Words had been escaping him lately. They were like cigarette smoke. He’d open his mouth and the word would billow away on the wind.

If Michelle and he had an affair, they would get found out. That’s what always happened.

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