You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don’t, they’re so numb they won’t feel anything? Mmm. What if it’s the opposite? Amma whispered. What if you hurt because it feels s...
What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?
What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.
We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungl...
We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how.
The whole book made me want to punch Amy right in her stupid, spotless vagina
The nurses gave us meds to alleviate our tingling skins. And more meds to soothe our burning brains.
The man cocked his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back.
Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxipad commercial, Windex commercial. You’d think all women do is clean and bleed.
People want passion. People want a sense of purpose.
Patty’s older sister, Diane, had pierced Patty’s ears in this bathroom two decades ago. Patty heated a safety pin with a cheap lighter and Diane sliced a potato in half and stuck its cold, wet face ag...
Nothing to it but to do it.
Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it.
My brain had been burping up such inappropriate thoughts at inopportune moments. Mental gas I couldn’t control.
Me desperté en el sofá de mi hermana con una resaca terrible y el deseo de asesinar a mi esposa.
La mayoría de las cosas buenas y hermosas son llevadas a cabo por mujeres menospreciadas por la mayoría.
It was a compliment to Nick—C was the correct answer—but he just gave a sour smile when I showed
It costs a lot to live.
I was the girl who battles oblivion and won. The chances were about 1 percent, but I did it.
I spoke in a soft, soothing voice, a voice wearing a cardigan.