"What lay beneath this calm exterior was desolation. It was an emotion no kid should have to feel -- not Benny, not Gemma, not himself back then. Yet he wondered if it wasn't the legacy of childhood. At some point in the game, you would come to it, no matter how you were raised, no matter if you had a big family around you, desolation was inevitable, it ran beneath everything, the always-available unbearably adult emotion that clung to one's still-breathing body like drowned clothes."

Martha Grimes' Richard Jury

I want to drive

until I hit the ocean

and then get a boat

and sail it

until I find the horizon.

why can't every day just be sun and music?

There's something about seeing that heavy, expectant grey/blue juxtaposed on the tight, snapping green that divides the world into colors and lines and sends a delicious shiver down my spine. My stomach tightens and my eyes widen as the room dimms and a cloud passes over the sun. I cannot help but grin a little; I was made for storms.

"I can clap my elbows but it makes my nose hurt."

-JLK