But facts were facts, and people didn’t get to turn Amy into everyone’s beloved best friend just because it was emotionally expedient.
Being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to being a shallow person.
Because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau. Each exposure needed to be more intense than the last to achieve the same result.
Because at this point of our marriage, I was so used to being angry with her, it felt almost enjoyable, like gnawing on a cuticle: You know you should stop, that it doesn’t really feel as good as you...
You're here covering the murders, bad girl, Jackie continued. Adora must hate that. Sleeping in her house with your dirty little brain. (...) Course before Adora took it over, we all slept over at Joy...
You'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
You think you know the answer, you’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there’s any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of ask...
Yes, you need your evidence. I hope I have enough poison left in me.
Women are fucking crazy. No qualifier: Not some women, not many women. Women are crazy.
Women are crazy. Go didn’t consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively.
With the Internet, Facebook, YouTube, there's no such thing as an unbiased jury anymore. No clean slate.
Why bother? It’s impossible to compete with the dead.
When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.
When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself—it’s a hobby today, but at age fourteen it was a vocation. On a September morning, just after school started, I’d gotten Diane’s .44 Magnum an...
When I think of my wife, I always think of her head.
What do I say to a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off?
We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. (…) I...
We are all working from the same dog-eared script.
Was I good at caring for Amma because of kindness? Or did I like caring for Amma because I have Adora's sickness? I waver between the two, especially at night, when my skin begins to pulse.Lately I've...
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