And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
And I don’t know, you’re at that age, if a bunch of grownups are telling you something or encouraging you, it just … it started to feel real. That Ben had molested me, because otherwise, why were all...
All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain. Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. Not makes me feel, just makes me. I am fun. I am playful...
Against the far wall was a wire cage holding a pack of unblinking bunnies. World’s dumbest pet, I thought. Who would want an animal that sat, quivered, and shat everywhere? They say you can litter-box...
A multichild household is a pit of petty jealousies, this I knew, and the Nash children were panicking at the idea of competing not just with one another, but with a dead sister. They had my sympathie...
Y sé que me voy enfadar: esa sensación de inhalación rápida, labios que se tensan, hombros que se alzan; esa sensación de <>. ¿Es que los hombres no conocen esa sensación? No quieres enfadarte, pero t...
How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: I like strong women. If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because I like strong women is code for I hate...
You know how, in court, they talk about the CSI effect? Like, everyone on the jury has watched so much CSI that they believe science can prove anything?Yeah.Well, I think there's an Evil Husband effec...
When I'd been sad, I hurt myself. Amma hurt other people. When I'd wanted attention, I'd submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma's sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression....
We could leave the country if you want. Live in Spain, Italy, wherever you like, spend our days eating mangoes in the sun. Sleep late, play Scrabble, flip through books aimlessly, swim in the ocean.
That’s the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.
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. Cherry. Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to...
She was a real talker, said whatever come into her mind. In a good way. Mostly. She was silent again for a few beats, but I could see her thinking back behind her eyes so I said nothing. You know, I t...
Remember that game you always played with Mom when we were little: I smacked Go? I robbed a bank? I killed someone?'I said nothing. My breath was coming too fast.'I would still love you,' Go said.'...
Pero no lo dije en voz alta; a menudo no digo las cosas en voz alta, ni siquiera cuando debería. Contengo y compartimiento hasta un extremo preocupante: en el sótano de mi vientre hay cientos de botel...
On a September morning, just after school started, I'd gotten Diane's .44 Magnum and held it, babylike, in my lap for hours. What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spiri...
My nose flared involuntarily and my eyes started watering. You ever been near an animal-processing plant, you know what I mean. The smell isn’t like water or air; it’s a solid. Like you should be able...
Mi smo prva ljudska bića koja ništa neće vidjeti prvi put. Zurimo u svjetska čuda tupim očima, bez ikakva oduševljenja. Mona Lisa, piramide, Empire State Building. Napad životinja iz džungle, prastare...
I’m not someone who can be depended on five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don’t even get out of bed five days in a row—I often don’t remember to eat five days in a row.
I’d tried all my life to be a decent guy, a man who loved and respected women, a guy without hang-ups. And here I was, thinking nasty thoughts about my twin, about my mother-in-law, about my mistress....