“Show me a woman who cries when the trees lose their leaves in autumn and I’ll show you a real asshole.”
― Heartburn
― Heartburn
“Women want to be loved like roses. They spend hours perfecting their eyebrows and toes and inventing irresistible curls that fall by accident down the back of their necks from otherwise austere hairstyles. They want their lover to remember the way they held a glass. They want to haunt.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company
― Slow Days, Fast Company
“I am supposed to be touched. I can’t wait to find the person who will come into the kitchen just to smell my neck and get behind me and hug me and breathe me in and make me turn around and make me kiss his face and put my hands in his hair even with my soapy dishwater drips. I am a lovely woman. Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?”
― Little Weirds
― Little Weirds
“She hadn't signed on for this. She craved action. She wanted hard deadlines.”
― How to Kill a Celebrity: a Novella
― How to Kill a Celebrity: a Novella
“I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything.”
― Crush
― Crush
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