I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mot...
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.
I can be whatever.You can be whatever.We can be whatever.Whatever, together.
I've been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on the island....Lord of the Flies what about it....You know how you said it wasn't a true measure of humanity since there were no girls and...
I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony.
The only thing I’m trying to steal is your heart, doll. Sam smirked. You’re not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.
I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
What did I do to make Mommy leave?You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.Then why? she’d wailed.I don’t know, her daddy had said, and he looked so sad.It isn’t fair!No, it isn’t, baby. Not by a...
I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.
I don't trust her father than I can run full-steam in a corset.
You have been deceived. Spiritualism is no more a science than thievery. For that's all this is--very skilled dodgers stealing money from the bereaved for a little glint of hope. People see what they...
I don’t care. If I like somebody, I like her, and that’s that. He thumped his chest and made a scowly face. Let ‘em come for me. I will stare down the mob with their pitchforks! I will make a speech a...
I don’t want to have this conversation. It’s sunny out. There’s bacon downstairs. My life is starting over today. I’ve just made it official.
She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—...
Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.
It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
The truth was, she was afraid that when she fell hard for a boy, she’d lose herself along the way. She’d seen it happen to lots of girls. They’d go from drinking gin, driving fast cars, and boldly shi...
My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.
I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
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