We just want you to be happy.' Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how. So many lessons and opportunities and advantages, and they never taught me how to be happy.
We climb three flights of warped stairs and walk into a whoosh of body heat and
To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.
They want you attractive but not slutty. For instance, in my real life I wear glasses, but I don’t when I’m in back because it’s distracting—they think you’re going to pull a Sexy Librarian act on the...
They pictured themselves dashing around Manhattan, latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, adorably breaking a designer heel while hailing a cab, and falling into the arms of a charming, disarming...
They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted
There was just me, left wretched in my childhood bed.
The ones we picked? We didn’t call them marks, or prey or victims. We called them Tonys, because my dad was named Tony and he could never say no to anyone (although I assume he said no to my mom at le...
The fact is, my wife is a murderess who is sometimes really fun.
The day of Amma’s arrest, the day it finally, completely unraveled, Curry and Eileen parked themselves on my couch, like concerned salt and pepper shakers.
The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.
The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious lust, to wall themselves away from sticky emotion....
Teeth chattering and my heartbeat thumping behind my eyeballs.
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.
Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.
So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be with anyone.
Smile, it can’t be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra.
She’s a planner. She doesn’t, you know, wing anything. She likes to make lists and check things off, get things done.
She'd used the treasure hunt to take me on a tour of all my infidelities.