That is complicated question with an equally complicated answer.
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.
Since this wedding that never happened is my fantasy, that boy is clean-shaven on your special day, hair combed neatly, slightly nervous as he stands by the preacher, looking at you the way I always...
She felt it snap into her head like a slide loading into a projector.
Rick shuffled through the cards again. Where is the tallest mountain on earth? Lydia put her hand over her eyes so she could concentrate. You said tallest, not highest elevation, so it can’t be Everes...
Rage had consumed her. She hadn’t wanted to just murder him. She had wanted to empty her gun into his chest. And then she wanted to fill the holes with burning oil and dance in his still-warm blood. S...
My wife is for making babies. You’re for fucking. The sting was unexpected. That’s an awful thing to say. Trust me, one is a lot more fun than the other.
Michael swallowed, feeling like he was choking on his grief. Fifteen, he said. She’d just had a birthday last week. He’d bought her a stuffed giraffe. She’s fifteen.
Marriage. That’s what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with...
Like my father, I have devoted my life to treating animals, but that was the first time I had ever made the connection between the horrible things people do to animals and the even more horrific thing...
Jeffrey felt too blindsided
If there was one thing she excelled at, it was being her own inner mean girl.
I know you’re an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.
How had her mother fallen in with these idiots?
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
He shrugged. Are you going to answer me? You told me to shut up.
Everyone knows you’re beautiful, he’d told her, but no one knows that you’re clever. Clever. Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
Dogs are stupid, Rusty said. This is a known fact. But a cat—you have to earn a cat’s respect every single day of your life.
Dogs are stupid, Rusty said. This is a known fact. But a cat—you have to earn a cat’s respect every single day of your life. You lose it and— He snapped his fingers. That’s what your mama was to me. S...