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“Their families were so sick of them procreating that the entire pregrancy was an embarrassment. Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry.”

“I felt guilty about all of it, not good at all, but I feared having no money, really feared being broke, and that came before being nice.”

“He thought sex was supposed to chill you out - and the during part was good, the coming part was great. But afterward, for about ten minutes he felt like crying. He felt like, is this it? The greatest thing in life, the thing men kill for and this is it, over in a few minutes, leaving you all gutted and depressed.”

“She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed.”

“When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself - it’s a hobby today, but at age fourteen it was a vocation.”

“Teachers were usually reliable for half a sandwich or a piece of fruit if you stared at them long enough.”

“No one thinks you’re a bad mother. You’re superwoman as far as I’m concerned: you keep the farm going, get four kids to school every day, and don’t drink a gallon of bourbon to do it.”

“getting ready to take off her clothes at a strip club that was so entirely generic. There’s something disturbing about not even bothering with a name. Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment - at least one moment - when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one name..”

“Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with.”

“Her only words: “What possessed you to do such a thing?” which was a prim for Diane, but filled with more hurt than three dozen fuck-yous.”

“I made myself call Lyle, hoping for voicemail and, as usual, getting him.”

“I like waitresses who call me hon or sweetie, and she did.”

“Her face was always red, her eyes always pink, so it was impossible to tell if she’d been crying, the only advantage to looking like a skinned rat.”

“Libby was a Christmas baby, which meant she never got the right amout of presents.”

“I made a mental note to take a smiling, pretty photo of myself in case I ever disappeared.”

“-Wish she’d told me before I got the tattoo.”
“-Must’ve hurt.”
“-It did’t tickle.”
“-I meant the breakup.”
“-Oh, that sucked too.”

“If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a very Merry Christmas”.

“...looking at you half guilty, half daring you to say something.”

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“...and she was unattractively thin, all bumps and points, like she’d swallowed a shelf’s worth of hardware: hammers and mothballs and a few old bottles. She did not look like the kind of person you’d want to hug...”

“The hunter and the hunted, but it was like a bad nature show: He was a three-legged, runt coyote and she was a tired, limping bunny. It was not magnificent.”

“The one thing I suspected about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy - he had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.”

“... she was the addict, she smoked so much she smelled like tobacco even after shower, like if she slit her skin, menthol vapor would ooze out.”

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“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Split me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”

“My brother slaughtered my family when I was seven. My mom, two sisters, gone: bang bang, chop chop, choke choke.”