If your mother likes your drawing of a duck and hangs it on the refrigerator, that doesn’t mean it’s good.Snob, Sam said.
If left to my own devices, though, I'd also eat Ben & Jerry's brownie batter ice cream until I weighed six hundred pounds, but somehow I manage to stop myself when my pants start to get a little tight...
If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.
I realized that all those superheroes were doing was fighting themselves, and that getting to breathe underwater or shoot fire from your fingers didn't really make up for being screwed up in the first...
I guess I’ve learned that no matter how bad things get, there are always people who love you.
I don’t know why anyone wants to get married, said Burke. I think the whole thing was cooked up by lawyers so they can get rich off of divorce.
How much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?
People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.
People still think what you look like is who you are.
It’s a plant. Burke’s father stared at the laptop’s screen, peering over his glasses at the photos as Burke brought them up.It’s not a plant, Ed, Lucy said, looking at Burke and shaking her head. It’...
MY FIRST SUMMER living in New York, I couldn’t wait for
I thought you said you were okay with turning forty.
Anyone can be crazy, she answered. That’s usually just because there’s something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yours...
You either are or aren't
Nobody around here, she said. We all pretend to, but we never really do. She pointed to the television. We're like the people in there, she said, like the TV was an apartment house or something. We o...
I loved Jerry, and I wanted to have his baby. She laughed. This was before women started looking at their vaginas in hand mirrors and Gloria Steinem told us we could be more than just mothers.