. what you call my struggle to submit . . . is not struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy—fully armed t...
Tutor in the computer lab. Claire was an art history major. She had never been good at math. Or at least she’d never tried to be, which was the same thing. She could vividly remember the first time sh...
The luxury vacations had come as a personal affront to a woman who had survived the Great Depression, a world war, the death of a husband, the loss of two children, and countless other hardships. Clai...
Stupid fucker.
Sometimes, your world turns upside down, and you need somebody to show you how to walk on your hands before you can find your feet again.
Receiver,
People found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She knew when to use who or whom. She could not abide misinformat...
Older and she always got to drive. She opened
Offer nothing
If you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.
[...]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.
Will let out a long breath. She leaves me a lot. That's what she does. She leaves, and then she comes back. And then she stays some and then she leaves again.Where does she go?I have no idea.You've ne...
Third domino: Statistically, rapists didn’t just rape once. If they got away with it, they generally kept raping. Even if they didn’t get away with it, the recidivism rate was so high that they might...
That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.
Some people are born with a hole inside them. They spend their lives trying to fill it. Sometimes it's pills, sometimes it's Jesus.
People were outraged. They were glued to their televisions, to their web pages, to their Facebook feeds. They vocally expressed sorrow, horror, fury, pain. They cried for change. They raised money. Th...
I’ve got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.
He would never challenge her or scare her or infuriate her or stir up any of those fiery emotions that made it worthwhile to put up with a man’s bullshit. Why
He was safe because she would never really give all of herself to him. I
Andy opened her mouth and screamed as loud as she could. It felt good, but she couldn’t scream for the rest of her life.