Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life.
So, are there any asshole guys here I can start dating? she says. That’s my, like, pattern. Run away from one, bump into the next.
Shotgun blasts in a small hallway. The panicked, jaybird cries of my mother, still trying to save her kids with half her head gone.
She'd used the treasure hunt to take me on a tour of all my infidelities.
See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.
Save Gas, Fart in a Jar.
People judge. Fast
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
Nick grew up with a father who never ever apologized, so when Nick feels he has screwed up he goes on offense.
Marriage is compromise and hard work,and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter.
Mama Mo does not insist. She simply makes things a reality by assuming they are such:
Lyle Wirth looked like a serial killer. Which meant he probably wasn’t one. If you were chopping up hookers or eating runaways, you’d try to look normal.
Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.
Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry.
La gente hace lo que se supone que debe hacer y después espera a que los colmes con tu aprecio; son como los empleados de las tiendas de yogur helado que dejan vasos sobre la barra para que eches la p...
I can do pretty much anything. A ghost has that freedom.
I’ve always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication - a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
It is dangerous to laugh at your spouse.
In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.