She has all the right equipment to look sexy, pretty even. She just overdoes everything-like she's a coloring-book women who got scribbled on by a toddler,

The Thing Is
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the slit of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think , how can a body withstand this? Then you hold like life a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

When someone doesn't like something, it's often because they're not familiar with it, or they're too familiar with it.

A bikini is like a barbed wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view.

Cleaning the house while your kids are still home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.