Badness doesn’t come all at once. The dominoes fall over time. You hurt someone by mistake and they let you get away with it. Then you try hurting them on purpose, and they still stick around. And the...
A person who has been up close when a gun is fired into another human being never mistakes the sound of a gunshot for something else.
Age is a cruel punishment for youth.
And then she got older, and . . . Lydia shook her head. Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purs...
As I expected, Paul immediately apologized for not asking me whether or not he could date Claire. He is nothing if not a good mimic of appropriate behaviors. Had we been in person rather than on the t...
Because I want you to stay at Rick’s tonight. Lydia paused. Because I said so. She paused again. Sweetheart, I know you’re an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful...
Claire didn’t argue because Lydia was older and she always got to drive. She opened the mudroom door and left it unlocked. At this point, Claire welcomed the burglars to return. She would’ve left cook...
Every time Kate got an inkling that she might live, she remembered what her life was like and wondered if it was worth the effort.
Her subway card was given to a homeless woman who had thanked her, then screeched that she was a fucking whore.
I want you to know that this is what happens when you meet the person you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with: that restless feeling dissolves like butter.
More time passed, the clock ticking forward when she longed for it to go back
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