The children in the woods play wild, secret games.
The Devil lurked nearby in our Kansas town, an evil that was as natural and physical as a hillside.
The Day women were the definition of mob mentality. And here they were on a farm with plenty of pitchforks. She
That's how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks.
Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own.
Sometimes I feel it’s his personal game, that he’s in some sort of undeclared contest for impenetrability.
So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. Stop
Sick and sicker and sickest. What was real and what was fake? Was Amma really sick and needing my mother’s medicine, or was the medicine what was making Amma sick? Did her blue pill make me vomit, or...
Should I remove my soul before I come inside?
She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale. Because it was never just that the door was unlocked, it was that the door was unlocked, and men were inside, and they were waiting to rape and kill he...
She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia.
Of course it was.
Não sou do tipo de repórter que se delicia ao entrar na intimidade das pessoas. Provavelmente é por isso que sou uma jornalista de segunda. Uma delas, pelo menos.
Never leave a message for someone you really want to reach. No, you keep phoning and phoning until someone picks up—out of anger or curiosity or fear—and then you blurt out whatever words will keep th...
My wife loved games, mostly mind games, but also actual games of amusement,
My life has begun to feel like an epilogue.
My brain is so busy with Nick thoughts, it’s a swarm inside my head: Nicknicknicknicknick! And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice, a day and qu...
Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. Not makes me feel, just makes me.