What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.
The academic world is competitive. For ideas, grants, students, funding.
She's such a lovely woman, he'd tell me time and time again. I'd nod, because my mom is such a lovely woman. And charming and smart. Can't argue with any of that. She's also a fucking wack job.
Parents think the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is cancer. They’re wrong; the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is mental illness.
Not to mention there are at least seven locks between you and the outside world. First lock is on your cell door. Get by
Not the cute kind of cuckoo, or the lights-on-but-nobody's-home loony. She's really, genuinely, sold my-soul-to-the-devil crazy. She don't care about me or anyone else in the place. I mean, sure, she...
Let me be the first to say, there isn't a hell big enough for some of the assholes we have walking here on this earth.
It’s true that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But no one says that strength doesn’t come at a price.
It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.
Do you really think it’s all gone away? Mental illness has just moved underground, into the homeless shelters and the city parks. Out of sight, out of mind for the taxpayers. It’s a crying shame.
D. D. Warren knew from experience,
To transfer her rage after all. She wanted David Price dead. And then, for the first time, she truly understood Griffin. And then, for the first time, she had an inkling of an idea. The front door ope...
But I’m still the child of an abusive alcoholic and we don’t make great parent material.
That brought D.D. up short.
Sometimes I think rage is like a furnace, and I’ve been angry for so many years now, I’m perpetually heated from the inside out.
Shit! We’re idiots.
No, wait, I drink any more java, I’m gonna start pissing Colombians.
Loving a child was humbling.
Is he a renegade, works best by himself, alienates those in authority?Actually, that would be you, dear.True
Dying for someone is easy. J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind.Living for yourself, that's hard.