Status Updates From Naked

“‘You kids think you must’ve invented sex,’ my mother was fond of saying. But hadn’t we?” P90-91

“My mother… watched as men… carried her father… to their local psychiatric hospital… My mother visited him every day, and often he had no idea who she was. Once, thinking she was a nurse, he attempted to slip his hand beneath her skirt. The experience left her with a certain haunted quality I very much admired. She'd looked into the face of something horrible, and I wanted to know what that felt like” p74