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mostly his work just made him dislike houses. These enormous anchors that people tied to their lives.
Once you’ve slipped into the underworld, it’s difficult to come back out. Shadows slanting over everything.
“It’s hard to play with someone for a long time. It’s like a marriage. Sometimes it lasts forever, sometimes you get sick of each other, sometimes the other party gets tired of playing the rhythm part.”
All she could think of as she left the room and slipped down the stairs to the basement was Paul beating that man in the backyard a few months earlier, the blood on the grass the following morning. You’re judged by the company you keep, a social worker had told her once, you are the company you keep, and wasn’t Daniel Paul’s friend?
Want to know something about Sasha? She’s never gone anywhere or done anything, and it’s made her naive. You know what people like Sasha assume? They assume every human life is equal.”
She was frightened, he realized, but also excited. How many times in your life do you get to flee town? How often do you get to lose everything and start all over again?
