She Lies Close Quotes

“The eroders of a marriage’s vitality are also the eroders of abhorrence: sex, routine, shared experiences, shared jokes, and time. Like water and wind weakening jagged, angular rocks, they smooth intense emotions and they desensitize. For better or worse.”
― Sharon Doering, I Know You

“Having money to buy milk or pay my electric bill or fill a cavity so it doesn’t turn into a more expensive, painful root canal: these are the big things. The big things occasionally bring people to the edge of insanity or make them homeless.”
― Sharon Doering, I Know You

“Your spark plug was loose. It needed to be reseated.” If he only knew how badly my spark plug needs to be reseated.”
― Sharon Doering, I Know You

“The outside of my house is like a scrotum housing two testicles, meaning, my mind considers it the male domain, not fully knowable and involving an array of equipment and procedures that will never feel natural to me.”
― Sharon Doering, I Know You

“He is a bag of air-spun, melt-on-their-tongues, blue and pink cotton candy. I am bitter broccoli and peas.”
― Sharon Doering, I Know You

“They poke their little straws into your Capri Sun soul and they suck.”
― Sharon Doering, I Know You

“My mind is a snow globe in the hands of a toddler who’s shitfaced on apple juice. I keep waiting for the white flakes to settle, but they remain a perpetual, furious blizzard.”
― Sharon Doering, I Know You