How do you file a restraining order against sadness?
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My two best friends are dead, which means they're great listeners now, but lousy as far as support goes.
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Otherwise I'll do something that I won't be able to live with. And that's important to me, being able to live with my actions. My thoughts are a different story. They've my own and they don't hurt anyone but me.
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And while I tell him all my thoughts, I don't always share my secrets.
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Love fills all the gaps in our souls.
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You'll love him. Or maybe you'll just love him a time or two.
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She's unhurt—or at least not bleeding on the oustide.
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Please don't' ask me how I feel about it. If I had to pick a word, I'd say homicidal.
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I think my invisibility cloak just failed.
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You're on a blind date. The only other questions is: Why aren't you drinking heavily?
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If the world ends tomorrow, understand that I regret saying no.
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I've heard the story about the woman who opened the box and let havoc grab a choke hold on the world.
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He reels me in, cups my face with both hands, and becomes my whole world. This is a kiss--maybe the last one we'll ever know, so we stay there forever, warm and safe. When he pulls away, something is lost. I think it's my heart.
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It's satisfying. It yields immediate results. Something is dirty. Then it's not.
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When I awake, the world is still gone.
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I have two choices: attend my sister's dinner party or tie a plastic sack around my mother's head until she runs out of ngagging. I choose the evil that doesn't come witha felony conviction.
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Can I ask you something? Boxers. Briefs exacerbate my claustrophobia.
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Five years, my family thinks it's time I moved on. I'd like to move on with a non-asshole
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Are you menstruating? what? You're angry. Women are often angry when they menstruate. It is the hormones.
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It's not just college grades that fall in a curve. Human decency is bell-shaped, with some of us slopping over the edges. Saints on one end, sinners on the other.
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I pray to a God I don't really have faith in just so I feel like I have company.
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Do you realize you're talking to yourself? Yes. It's good that you know the difference.
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You're not dead. I'm not dead. Why? How? Dying wasn't on my list.
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Our new intern sorts pot shards like some kind of savant. The other interns call himi Rain Man.
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If you kill him, call me. I'm bound by doctor client privilege. Really? No, but the courts make exceptions for assholes.
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Do you want me, too? Yes. And no. I'll take that. For now.
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Just a cold. And I think maybe I'm pregnant, because I'm always riding the porcelain bus, or thinking about it.
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Just say the word and I'll make him stay. I have to do it. There's no have to. Not even now.