Love should require both partners to be very best at all times.
Just got to keep on keeping on,
It is one of those big-smelling days, when people bring the outdoors in with them, the scent of rain on their sleeves, in their hair.
It feels nice, after my recent series of nervous, respectful post-feminist men, to be a territory.
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
I will find you, Amy.Lovesick words, hateful intentions.
I was probably happier for those few years--pretending to be someone else--than I ever have been before or after. I can't decide what that means.
I have a dash of ADD, and I’ve always found my wife a bit dazzling, in the purest sense of the word: to lose clear vision, especially from looking at bright light. It was enough to be near her and hea...
I feel very sad about those girls, I said, but it sounded artificial, like a beauty contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me.
I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.
He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw out, giving him...
Don’t screw up, you are Amazing Amy. Our only one. There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child—you grow up knowing you aren’t allowed to disappoint, you’re not even allowed t...
Don’t be a scared, dickless boy all your life, letting people push you around, letting people bring up the fear in you.
Do you understand this is serious?I understand you think it's serious.
Cameras flashed. I turned away and saw spots. It was surreal. That’s what people always say to describe moments that are merely unusual. I thought: You have no fucking idea what surreal is. My hangove...
You'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy
Violent little girls.
Inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship. So
You know what I was about to say? I was about to say I don't know what to believe anymore. And then I thought, that's someone else's line. That's a line from a movie, not something I should be saying,...
We have some great museums. You'd love the lake. I don't know that I can enjoy any kind of water anymore. Why not? I already knew. After that little girl, little Ann Nash, was left in the creek to dro...