“I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“We all have our own patterns, I guess ... And whether we like it or not, they persist.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“HEARTBREAK IS STUPID and impossible. Hearts don’t break. Hearts squeeze, they wrench, they ache, they shrivel. Hearts pull apart in wet chunks like canned… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“Contact. When someone touches me wrong it isn’t a feeling. It isn’t hate or fear or pain. It is just blackness and a chant… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“This is the way I’ve always been. I think of the answer long after the person asking the question has lost interest and walked… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“Panic, panic, can't panic. Think of food. Think of sugar. I am a sugar cube in cold water. I won't dissolve. Precise edges. Made… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“Food has power. Nonna knew that. Ma did too. I know it now. And though it can't save me, it might help me, in… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
