She hasn't forgotten that I once called that thing she…

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

— Herman Melville

“God hasn't forgotten you, God will never forget you. He says He will never leave you comfortless, and He won't. You can't use Him…

— Krickett Carpenter

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and…

— Bob Uecker

“From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque. With this…

— Olivia Sudjic

“But you'd hope anyone would feel sympathy if they actually saw someone face to face, pleading for a chance.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“I sank back, deeper into the parallel universe I had found.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“ Roses are like kamikaze love pilots. Roses are like suicide love bombers. ”

— Olivia Sudjic

“I felt my own self-sufficiency, my own Walden Pond, seeping out of me as if I'd sprung a leak. Self soaked into everything around…

— Olivia Sudjic

“A neon-pink 3 flickered and instantly disappeared again into the dark. The sight of it on my own device now made me sick. I…

— Olivia Sudjic

“I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now thought of…

— Olivia Sudjic

“I saw a doctor. I went in case there were any remnants of the summer inside me—sticky, slender fish bones that needed to be…

— Olivia Sudjic

“That night I dreamt about the roses laid at the wrong feet—the feet of the nurse. Each bit of the dream was like a…

— Olivia Sudjic

“I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“It was to do with the glazed look that always comes over me when faced with somebody who has offended or hurt me and…

— Olivia Sudjic