miserable little dogs, we laugh, with our visages as white as ashes, and our hearts sinking into our boots.

brain on a chain: an RAF police dog, with the implication that they are more intelligent than their handlers. god-botherer: the chaplain. Otherwise known as the sky pilot.

She can tell he is upset but mistakenly assumes he doesn’t care about her because he isn’t talking to her.

No one was telling me the cards sucked, which to a depressed person means that the cards do suck but everyone’s either too polite or angry to actually tell you that.