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.
If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a very Merry Christmas,
I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am lo...
Her mind was both wide and deep, and I got smarter being with her. And more considerate, and more active, and more alive, and almost electric, because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: Th...
Camille? Her voice quiet and girlish and unsure. You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't, they're so numb they won't feel anything?Mmm.What if it's the opposite? Amma...
At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at m...
The little brown house was my father’s house, which was actually blue, but Amy was making another inside joke. I’d always liked our inside jokes the best – they made me feel more connected to Amy than...
I’m a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal education. So I’m left with the feeling that I’m smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got...
If he knew I was doing a year from now already, he’d run and I’d be obliged to cheer him on.)
If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.
Every phrase had to be captured on paper or it wasn't real, it slipped away. I'd see the words hanging in midair--Camille, pass the milk-- and anxiety coiled up in me as they began to fade, like jet e...
Smart-boys fuck like they’re composing a piece of math rock: This hand strums around here, and then this finger offers a nice bass rhythm.…
Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they're easily offended.
Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxipad commercial, Windex commercial. You’d think all women do is clean and bleed. And
It is always consoling to think of suicide;it's what gets one through many a bad night.
If I had a dick, I would fuck this peanut butter, deliberately spraying cracker bits toward me. I think if you had a dick, all sorts of bad things would happen.
Es ist ein Unterschied, ob man einen Menschen wirklich liebt oder nur die Idee von ihm.
I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase Sometimes women do.
I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or corsages. Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper past...
I prepared to get out of bed, tossing the covers aside, the sheets dank-smelling, gray from my body. I wondered how long it had been since I'd changed them. And then I wondered how often you were supp...