Status Updates From Two Nights in Lisbon

"She supposes there are many different ways to love. Hate is much simpler."

"Sometimes we compound the lies we tell each other with lies we tell ourselves, denying that what we’re doing is lying, or denying that lying is bad, or denying that lying has consequences. Denying that facts are facts. Denying that truth has meaning."

"America was nothing if not cognitively dissonant. That’s the real hysteria, the national pretense that we’re not what we empirically are."

"Before she pulls on the fitted sheet, she drops to her knees—the most painful part of her job—to check under the bed. That is when she sees it."