Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she wasn’t the kind of person Jim c...
There would be menus, offered today by a girl
Mom with a part-time (inching
A white headband in her curled and sprayed hair.
As long as people can still surprise you, it means you’re not dead.
The measure of a man is, does he know how to love.
It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.
But I'll tell you a secret. You know what boys like? A woman who's happy with herself. Who's not making herself miserable with the Jane Fonda videotapes and complaining all the time about whether this...
Born on third base and think they hit a triple,
Plenty of them, including her beloved sorors, were the kind of blinkered, privileged, entitled assholes who’d go sailing through life, assuming that their hard work, not their privilege, was what ensu...
When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there.. whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.
A body was just a body, just a vessel for her soul, and
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
Fluttered
Rachel
Had become an EST instructor, which made both of them laugh.
This wasn’t the life she signed up for.
Someone had come in and mopped the floor, and the disinfectant smell was
Don’t upset your mother, my father would say.
If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?