You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity,
You guys not closed?' she asked. 'We are the definition of not close.
You fucking bitch you fucking bitch you fucking bitch. Come home so I can kill you.
Worse, I convinced myself our tragedy was entirely her making. I spent years working myself into the very thing I swore she was: a righteous ball of hate.
Why else would you pull out a dead little girl’s teeth? He took her teeth? All but the back part of a baby molar.
Who would I be without Amy to react to? Because she was right: As a man, I had been my most impressive when I loved her -- and I was my next best self when I hated her.
When we got home, she’d trail off to her room like an unfinished sentence, and I would sit outside with my face pressed against her door and replay the day in my head, searching for clues to what I’d...
What a pure way to die.
Well, there are all kinds of men, and you are the wrong kind.
We weren't ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves - surprise! - we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.
We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time.
To show don’t tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan
To know exactly what I wanted to hear in those notes, to woo me back to her, even to predict all my wrong moves … the woman knew me cold. Better than anyone in the world, she knew me. All this time I’...
This is unacceptable … no more coffee, thanks
There’s a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
There might be a space too, for this. The feel of killing, there might be an empty spot just waiting to be filled.
The world is black and then, showtime!
The bartender was another old, gray-haired fat guy. It seemed like a joke, how much all these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just erased your features, rubbed out anything distinctive.
The bad guy wins? Fuck him.
The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.