By the time my sister finally died, I was grateful in a way. It seemed to me that she’d been expelled into this world not quite formed. She was not ready for its weight. People whispered comfort about...
But you should never put a fifteen-year-old on a witness stand in a courtroom filled with a bunch of people he knows and expect a lot of tears.
But in truth, I think she’s always had more problems with children than she’d ever admit. I think, in fact, she hates them. There’s a jealousy, a resentfulness that I can feel even now, in my memory.
Before we start, you have to understand one very key thing about Amy: She is fucking brilliant. Her brain is so busy, it never works on just one level. She’s like this endless archaeological dig: You...
Aşk daha iyi bir adam olma isteği yaratır. Doğru bu, doğru. Ama belki aşk, gerçek aşk aynı zamanda olduğum adam olmama da izin veriyordur.
Amy likes to play God when she’s not happy. Old Testament God.
Always have a backup plan to the backup plan.
Worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately.
Waited patiently – years – for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each...
That have never known inhabitants, or homes that have known owners and seen them ejected, the house standing triumphantly voided, humanless.
Seemed like she could hold on to the good mood if everyone just stayed in their place. She needed the good mood, the way you need sleep after an all-nighter, the way you daydream of throwing yourself...
Sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame.
Or shoulders
It’s easy to like pregnant women—they’re like ducklings or bunnies or dogs.
It’s been years since I even really liked someone. 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...
You're in exquisite pain, you're not sleeping.' the mention of insomnia was always risky but usually paid off. People in pain don't general sleep well, insomniacs are exquisitely great full for people...
You think you can ever be a normal man again? You'll find a nice girl, and you'll still think of me, and you'll be so completely dissatisfied, trapped in your boring, normal life with your regular wif...
You stopped loving me. We're a sick, fucking toxic Möbius strip, Amy. We weren't ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves - surprise! - we were poison. We complete each other in th...
You recognize her? He actually looked stricken. She wanted to buy a gun.
When I was a kid, I lived with Runner’s second cousin in Holcomb, Kansas, for about five months