Being a math genius doesn’t necessarily translate to financial gain. Lots of geniuses die poor.
After-school
You know what gets to me, though? You know what's truly ironic?What?She needed us. She was exactly the kind of person that my father and I have sworn our lives to protect. She wasn't tough. She made b...
You know about trauma bonding, right? the agent asked abruptly. Forget kidnapping victims, you see it all the time with battered women. They’re isolated, at the mercy of their dominating spouse, going...
Winners never quit, quitters never win
Who do you love?
When men are cruel, it’s capricious. When women are cruel, it’s serious.
What’s the last thing you remember? I ask instead. Dancing. You were at a bar, a nightclub? In Boston? It takes her a bit, but finally, Y-y-yes. Did you drink too much? A small hiccup I take to be yes...
To pry would involve being told an answer I didn’t want to hear. So I didn’t pry.
This was the pattern of my life: to love men who didn’t deserve me, and, knowing that, to yearn for their love anyway.
Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.
Sugar and fat a socially acceptable drugs.
No doubt about it: Mac would make an excellent mother.
Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.
I’d clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me.
It’s not the flying that’s the hard part; it’s the landing.
It’s a tough moment when you have to confront the level of your own complacency. I
I wonder if that’s how I look to others; like I’m normal and functional, too, when in fact, I feel completely emptied out.
Her hand now rested on the top of her left thigh. Where she had the knife strapped, he guessed, and immediately felt his gut tighten with a shot of good, old-fashioned male lust. He did not know why a...
But welcome to the world of being a survivor. You make it out alive, and yet you spend the rest of your life wondering woulda, coulda, shoulda.