Status Updates From The Garden of Last Days

"It was like seeing the neighborhood for the first time and she felt hopeful because from here it looked affluent and clean and full of tax-paying contributors to society. And that’s what she was, wasn’t she?"

"God was for the weak, that’s what she really thought. It was for people who can’t face that we’re born alone and we die alone and for great stretches of our lives we’re just alone."

"Maybe happiness was just not being hungry or thirsty for anything much anymore. Satisfied to pull your boat into the slip and tie it off for good."

"A man does everything he’s supposed to—times ten—and f*cks up once, maybe twice, and he loses it all. All.