What Comes After Crazy Quotes

“So we had the whole fight right then—because we had to, time running out and all. Because what if we didn’t have the whole glorious fight, and he went off to Santa Fe, and I regretted not being given this one dramatic scene that I was owed? I yelled and slammed drawers and flung myself around the room, but the whole time I knew in some kind of creepy way that I was acting out of some historical outrage rather than anything generated right there in the present catastrophe. If I had done what I really felt like doing, I would have been sitting in the corner sucking my thumb. Instead, I had to fight, I had to be madder than I felt. He sat on the side of the bed and tried to look guiltier than he felt.”
― Sandi Kahn Shelton, What Comes After Crazy

“God, it’s so stupid the way I see my life, see all my existence as if there’s some magic out there waiting just for me.”
― Sandi Kahn Shelton, What Comes After Crazy

“A man might not like it, but men had so many advantages that it didn’t matter if occasionally they had to do stuff they didn’t think was really fair.”
― Sandi Kahn Shelton, What Comes After Crazy

“I hate my life.' I want to say, I know. I kind of hate mine, too. But I don’t think you’re allowed to say that to your children. You’re supposed to protect them from realizing how excruciating things can get and that you have no control.”
― Sandi Kahn Shelton, What Comes After Crazy