In a world both frightening and unlucky, there are a few comforts. One of them is making new friends. Friends can make you feel the world is smaller and safer than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences. When you meet people like that, you may find your world feels a little more complete. Like the missing piece of a puzzle or two halves of a broken spyglass.

Poor little orphan. Haven’t you learned anything this year? Week? Season?

Unless you are a murderer or a taxidermist, it is rare to have actual skeletons in your closet as opposed to metaphorical ones.

Don’t ask, don’t tell. That’s my motto.

Your cruelty is as sweet as this coffee I’m dumping the sugar into.