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She wanted to escape a love affair.
Sarah doesn’t think children should go to funerals. She’s told them they’re going to a party.
Unearthing the self-love I buried so deeply.
It was nice, kids just being kids.
You should know, she said, I got my results from the doctor.
It only mattered that I was beautiful.
Listen to the surf. I could lie here, lie here with you forever.
I invent the last thing that ever happens.
They sound like Napalm Death, with a drum machine.
Live every waking moment as miserable myth.
I am allowed to look to my future with eager eyes.
He stares out to sea, wraps his arms around himself, it’s all so simple.
The dragon on his arm seemed to climb from his skin to mine.
She read all the self-help books on relationships.
What were the odds of me being seated next to Maris?
Sounded like dirty work to me.
You’re not dead until we stop. Get it?
What was saving, anyway? From what? For what?
I just want to know what it feels like to be a writer.
Why are we even here? What were you thinking?
For the first time since she had become a sleuth, Annie was sorry to have caught someone.
The phone is lost. My mother is finally dead.
Rubber duckies are too bourgeoisie.
How about learning the piano or reading a book but don't just stare at the tube.
What can I say? I hate mushrooms. They taste like dirt.
My father never sat next to my mother at the movies, he always sat next to me.
It’s just that life can be so beautiful and it can be so painful.
Full-on assault on the senses.
Which song of which the battle-at-back rages.
This is what my world had come to.
Stars like a runway to oblivion.
I have no qualms about my half-foot hero.
Not only sadness but love and joy.
howl howl how long do we pay tribute
Connect the fragments as you drink.
Why can't human beings control the weather?
I grabbed a handful of spaghetti and threw it at the wall.
She pins a note to the baby’s shirt: Rachel, my love. Live!
We all know Batman villains never win.
She tapped a long fingernail on The New Yorker. Makes you too elite.
My dad wants you to come over.
This would probably be my last chance to see Halley's Comet.
Anxiety started to plague me, and my stomach was running flip-flops.
She had no idea what next. Didn’t want any next.
I felt legitimate, unforced happiness.
She sees a warrior queen who hadn’t aged so much as she had blossomed.
He could forgive the sins of everybody, especially President Nixon.
The wisdom of unintended consequences.
You know, even with no wind there is really no reason why we shouldn’t be happy.
Then one day you give a guy your legs.
It was magical. And it was mine.
Yep, just like heroin, dental hygiene is one sick, crazy habit.
My parents dining alone when they meant to dine together.
It’s Mother’s Day. She has a right to see her boy.
At the bottom of the dishwasher’s deficient paycheck is the signature of a born-rich white man.
We exist in the stories we tell, in the space between our truth and reality.
There is always something that can be improved. It’s part of the fun.
The weekend had been going well until Hassan disappeared while swimming.
Happy means different things to different people.
They douse themselves in expensive perfume and chew gum to cover up the persistent smell of vomit.
To those who go on incomplete, carrying yesterday in trembling hands.
Reading my audiobook was 10 times scarier than writing it.
Toschi is missing a few parts.
She had been on a water planet.
Don’t you worry about getting hurt?
They lead one another away from the society that troubled them.
Hey Chief, thanks for picking us up.
Nonna, can you tell me about what happened to my great-grandfather?
Was the old woman of the estate up there watching us on the glassy morning water?
I’ve come to grips with the facts of the world.
These are my favorite thing in the world, sir.
I have had more jobs than birthdays.
Walking up to the fire I thought, well, everything’s gone.
And the man in the pink shirt.
She noticed him tense up at the mention of home. Something happened, didn’t it?
At 27 Carly was an up-and-coming artist. She had just been featured in Art News Magazine.