Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive.
Claire hung up the phone. She thought about the hours she had spent with Adam Quinn. Hours she should’ve spent with her husband. Hours she would kill to have back now. There
Claire hates you now. She believes me. She will never, ever take you back. We are never ever ever getting back together. Taylor Swift. How many times had Dee played that song after she caught He...
Who didn’t know how to use a shotgun?
Cunt on the blackboard.
You are an enigma wrapped in a sticky bun.
Women were as mysterious to them as the origins of the planet.
They had been arguing about something that had seemed desperately important to Claire at the time but now she couldn’t remember the topic or even when the argument had occurred. Last week? Last month?...
That doesn’t sound invisible to me. I’m saying it wrong, then. Lydia searched for a better way to explain. She was always holding herself back. She was cocaptain, not captain. She could’ve dated the q...
People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.
Kate’s knees felt shaky as she walked across the parking garage under the Barbizon Hotel. Every atom in her body was vibrating at a different frequency. Her lips felt swollen from Philip’s kisses. Her...
I will take care of animals. I will have justice. I
I must confess, sweetheart, that I have been neglecting my wall of clues. My useless gallimaufry, your mother called it on the one and only occasion she deigned to look at my work. I sagely agreed wit...
Flowers in the Attic
Estevez,
Claire’s mug shot was taken against a white background with a ruler that was clearly off by an inch. She wondered aloud why she wasn’t asked to hold a sign with her name and inmate number. Photoshop t...
. . he was about as forthcoming as an amnesiac with lockjaw.
My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls tha...
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
Chairs were padded. The tables looked clean. There were napkin dispensers on the tables instead of rolls of cheap