One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things. I
My husband is the most loyal man on the planet until he’s not.
Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.
I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment – that just anyone could like you.
I’d go out each morning and beg for six hours. I knew who to approach and for how long and exactly what to say. I was never ashamed. What I did was purely transactional: You made someone feel good and...
I’d come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival.
It was my fifth lie to the police. I was just starting.
It was him. The boy in ‘I met a boy!
Isn’t a smile a girl’s best weapon?
In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.
If you were chopping up hookers or eating runaways, you’d try to look normal.
If you remove the bloody floorboards and water-stained tiles; if you destroy the beams that held Robert Carterhook's body, and you tear down the walls that absorbed the screams, do you take down the h...
If you own a bar on your own, you’re a player; if you own it with your beloved twin sister, you’re— Irish. Go on.
If you don’t have money, gossip isn’t bad leverage. Even inside one’s own family.
I'm tired of dying.
I was busy thinking of all the people that had been harmed: intentionally, accidentally, deservedly, unfairly, slightly, completely.
I mean I would rather be a librarian but I worry about the job security, books may be temporary dicks are forever.
I jammed a floppy blue teddy bear under my head, then felt guilty and returned him to the foot of the bed. One should have allegiance to one's childhood things.
I hadn’t necessarily wanted to be cured. But I was out of places to write, slicing myself between my toes—bad, cry—like a junkie looking for one last vein. Vanish did it for me. I’d saved the neck, su...
I do know that framing your husband for your murder is beyond the pale of what an average would do. But it's so very necessary.