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According to Charissa, I’ve slept with half of the women in this office (and a few of the guys, as well).
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From the corner of my eye, I catch a glimpse of Mandy stuffing her gross face with a greasy breakfast sandwich from McDonald’s. She’s looking at it the way lovers look at each other after spending a long time apart.
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When people express concern over your well-being, it’s very rarely really genuine. They just want a reason to play amateur pseudo-psychologist. It’s ego masturbation.
Love will always get you hurt. You know that as well as I do. And since you clearly don’t love Amy, you should stay with her. You can’t get hurt in a loveless relationship. You don’t have anything to fight for. Nothing is at stake. With love, everything is at stake.”
Shallow stupidity breeds shallow stupidity.
For all the joy I’ve felt in my life, be it through women or drugs or what have you, the comedown is always a billion times more intense. It just doesn’t seem worth it. Happiness doesn’t last, and it seems like the periods in between each spurt of happiness just grow increasingly longer. Begging the question, what’s the fucking point?
“People create stories about other people because they don’t want to acknowledge how boring their own lives are.”
Our sex life has always been of the strictly missionary/cowgirl variation of vanilla, and I like it that way. I’ve never been into kinky shit. Even the whole doggy-style thing turns me off.
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“Amy, listen...I, uh, well...um, I respect you. That kind of thing...tying you up, or blindfolding you, or whatever...that just seems so...disrespectful.”
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It’s the first day I have to spend at the office without her, and I spend a good portion of the morning crying in the bathroom.
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Someone once told me...I think it was Elsie, but I don’t remember...that you can only hate those you once loved. Obviously, I think that’s bullshit. I do, however, believe that the ones you once loved are the ones you end up hating the most.
she’d looked into my eyes when she’d climaxed, and I was quite convinced that our souls became conjoined.
She stands up on wobbling legs and opens her mouth to speak, but I raise my hand and say, “Shut up. We’re done here. Get your clothes and get the fuck out of my house.”
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Death canonizes even the most awful of us. No one will speak ill of you when the dirt is still fresh upon your grave. It’s only once the grass starts to grow that everyone remembers what a piece of shit you were.
Shit. A cluster of large spheres of shit, alarming in how perfectly smooth and round they are. Hued light brown, and with what appear to be short, tiny fibers of hair that seem to be growing from them in some kind of awful, organic way. As though the shit is alive. Night of the Living Shitballs. Except, it’s daytime, and not even George Romero could conjure up something as nasty as this.

