I've had the blues for twenty-four years.
How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing.
Neighbors, I ran errands for Mo’s
We Got Llamas! Odd words to see in neon.
Something bad was going to happen.
Of all this? Gilpin
My life has begun to feel like an epilogue.
If you own a bar on your own, you're a player; if you own it with your beloved twin sister, you're–Irish.
Wow, someone walk over your grave?
The quotes were good, if overpolished. I find this common, and in direct proportion to the amount of TV a subject watches. Not long ago, I interviewed a woman whose twenty-two-year-old daughter had ju...
So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.
Of course it was.
I’m not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age.
It never takes much for me to lose patience. The phrase 'fuck you' may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.
If you couldn't find something in thirty seconds, you were losing money, his father always said. Return phone calls immediately was another rule Clay had been taught to obey.
I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs. IT
I have never been a nag. I have always been rather proud of my un-nagginess. So it pisses me off, that Nick is forcing me to nag. I am willing to live with a certain amount of sloppiness, of laziness,...
He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giv...
Every tragedy that happens in the world happens to my mother, and this more than anything about her turns my stomach. She worries over people she’s never met who have a spell of bad chance. She cries...
– you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You’ve always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to c...