The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contrived to give them value. It just struck me – clear and complete all at once – no long figuring about i...
Understand, daughter, that the only reason for your existing was as a tribute to your uncle-father. You were meant to love him. I planned to teach you how to serve him and adore him. You would be his...
I suspect people are suckers for a prick. I suspect folks just naturally go belly-up for a snob. Folks figure if a guy acts like he’s King Tut and everybody else is donkey shit, he must be an aristocr...
Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There...
The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous.
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough.
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentr...
There are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward normalcy. They suffer to exactly that degree that they are unable to appear normal to others, or to convinc...
The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack's patients.
Crystal Lil, her door propped open, sits in front of the television with a pan in her lap, a brown bag at her feet. She
The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall.
A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
I wonder, for example, if the twins’ piano training had given them the Tomaini brand of dexterity with hand jobs? Could a non-musician learn it? Could I?Children stumble through these most critical ac...
I don’t mind being lord of all I survey but I don’t want to have to work at it. It just wouldn’t be practical.
She talks. People talk easily to me. They think a bald albino hunchback can’t hide anything. My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves. They begin...
Taxis are expensive for moderately employed dwarfs who rent extra apartments, swim at private clubs, and fancy themselves as righteous assassins.
A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a swe...
Like colors or a spring tree against that kind of blue sky that pulls your heart out through your eyes. Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.
The whiskey looks like transparent wood in my glass.
He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.
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