Status Updates From The Knockout Queen

"Even God can't understand everything," she said.
"I thought that was the whole point of God. That he could understand everything”
"Some things he chooses not to understand," she said.
"What do you mean?" I thought she was cracked, now truly and finally cracked.
"That's the whole point of hell, isn't it? A place to put the people God chooses not to understand?”

"I still love you," I said. "But not like—"
"I love you too."
"Maybe we knew each other in a past life or something," I said.
"Maybe we knew each other in this one."

“I suppose I had thought that I dreamed it. That I was so desperate for love back then that I was willing to project it onto even an old man who lied to me. But it was still here, whatever it was.
I didn't know whether to call it love or joy or just connection, but it was all of those things, and it was generated by our proximity…”