“She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.”
― Lunar Park
― Lunar Park
“If I ain’t nothing but trouble, you ain’t nothing but Nothing.”
― The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
― The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
“Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“…she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust and sand.”
― Fling and Other Stories
― Fling and Other Stories
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