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1. "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 own devices, I have no devices." ~ Jael McHenry

2. "I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction." ~ Jael McHenry

3. "All I have besides food is grief." ~ Jael McHenry

4. "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 left behind." ~ Jael McHenry

5. "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 away." ~ Jael McHenry

6. "I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense." ~ Jael McHenry

7. "In my life I've had good days and bad days. Miserable days. Painful days. And no matter how bad the bad ones get, there's a mercy in them. Every single one of them ends." ~ Jael McHenry

8. "There is no normal. There's only what's right for you and being honest." ~ Jael McHenry

9. "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 up of tiny, regular, secure parts. If the water were hotter I would worry, but it's cold. I stay together. Precise. Clean. Surrounded, but whole." ~ Jael McHenry

10. "Her hand is close to my arm. My options are limited. I can't run away. I can't handle this.I lose myself in food.The rich, wet texture of melting chocolate. The way good aged goat cheese coats your tongue. The silky feel of pasta dough when it's been pressed and rested just enough. How the scent of onions changes, over an hour, from raw to mellow, sharp to sweet, and all that even without tasting. The simplest magic: how heat transforms." ~ Jael McHenry

11. "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 in me: get/out/get/out/get/out." ~ Jael McHenry

12. "She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time." ~ Jael McHenry

13. "The scene is most beautiful without people in it. People just screw things up. Forget the whole thing, the world, all the living people, I tell myself, and it has a ring of truth to it. The dead are better, aren't they? The dead don't betray or harm. They've already done all they can do. I can't figure out what people mean or who they are or whether they can be trusted, so, forget them. Don't even try anymore. For now at least, forget the living." ~ Jael McHenry

14. "His voice is muddy, that's what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too long on the burner. And unsweetened, bitter chocolate. But there's dirt in it too, deep, dark dirt, like the garden in October." ~ Jael McHenry

15. "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 tomatoes." ~ Jael McHenry

16. "My world had turned upside down again and again, which should mean it's right side up now, but it isn't. Everything's different, everything's the same." ~ Jael McHenry

17. "I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I knew it in my mind, but now I know it in my heart." ~ Jael McHenry

18. "I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe." ~ Jael McHenry

19. "It preoccupies me until it's time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever small way I can, I will tear myself apart. They've taken what's on the inside and made it visible. If I thought it wouldn't be inappropriate I'd do it myself." ~ Jael McHenry

20. "This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as it ever was except without the people who most belong here." ~ Jael McHenry

21. "It's a French technique. Soups get screened, and sauces. Forced through a tamis or a chinois. Everything that comes out is smooth and all the rough parts get left behind, thrown away. I don't want to be screened." ~ Jael McHenry

22. "But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple." ~ Jael McHenry

23. "I'm terrified of Elena's ghost, but at the same time, I feel strongly that it's the right thing to do. I can help, and I said I would, so I will. Besides, love is a powerful force. More powerful than reason. Even if that love, as strong as it is, isn't yours." ~ Jael McHenry

24. "I love it," I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long time ago that people don't really want explanations." ~ Jael McHenry

25. "As strange as my life gets, it's just my life. I'm still in it. Whatever happens, I'm going to have to find a way to get by." ~ Jael McHenry

26. "Alone doesn't just mean without people. It can mean without anything else. And maybe, even without putting a word on me, she's found a way to take away things I thought were mine. If this is the start I have no way to know when it will stop." ~ Jael McHenry

27. "He has a key and could come back in, but I doubt he will. He doesn't want to be here any more than I want him here. We've failed. I've failed. I made a promise that I couldn't, didn't, keep." ~ Jael McHenry

28. "Difficult, but not impossible. I am not impossible." ~ Jael McHenry

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