Two jobless grown-ups, we spent weeks wandering around our Brooklyn brownstone in socks and pajamas, ignoring the future, strewing unopened mail across tables and sofas, eating ice cream at ten A.M. a...
Time to drop the illusion.
This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publishing world—throw some kibble at it, watch it dance on its little leash, oh quite cute, it definitely won’t kil...
This man might kill me.
Thirteen years old, I thought to myself, but I felt a spear of admiration for the girl. When I’d been sad, I hurt myself. Amma hurt other people. When I’d wanted attention, I’d submitted myself to boy...
Third choice is a single woman who has that open look. You know it : The same woman you stop to ask for directions or the time of day, that's the woman we ask for money.
They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.
There were a lot of people who deserved a lesson, deserved to really understand, that nothing came easy, that most things were going to go sour.
The women who came in groups, they were frivolous, fancy, boozy, ready to have fun. The ones who came alone, though, they wanted to believe. They were desperate, and they didn’t have good enough insur...
The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what’s coveted, what’s au courant? I think most people do this, they just don’t admit it, or else they set...
The truth is malleable; you just need to pick the right expert.
The problem started long before that, of course. Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.
The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you,
The casino seemed like a good idea at first—right off the highway, filled with drunks and elderly, neither of whom are known for eyesight. But I am feeling crowded and fidgety, aware of the cameras in...
That was the worst word Diane could have said. As soon as she said it, Patty knew she’d been dreading just exactly that. That wedge of possibility—misunderstanding—that could turn this into something....
Sometimes when you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
Sometimes that’s what happens. No cigarette burns, no bone snaps. Just an irretrievable slipping.
Sometimes it is all too loud. T
Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you’re really doing it to them, Amma said, pulling another Blow Pop from her pocket.