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― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“We would go to lunch, and Craig would say something that was so funny that fifteen minutes after lunch had finished and I was driving home, I would have to pull over to the side of the road because I would still be laughing, and Craig would drive by, see my laughing, and know why. There was no one funnier than Craig. No one. (s. 72)”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“I’m not the biggest fan of confrontation. I ask a lot of questions. Just not out loud.”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“But there was something lurking in my shadows and my genes, like a creepy beast in a dark place, something I had that my father did not, and it would be a decade before we knew what it was. Alcoholism, addiction - you can call it what you want, I've chosen to call it a Big Terrible Thing. (s. 44)”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“Mom, being beautiful and smart and charistmatic and the star in every room she entered would date guys, and they'd date her back, and sure enough, I'd turn every one of those men into my dad. [...] I was continually losing my father; I was continually being dropped at the border. The roar of Niagra River was forever in my ears, and not even a dose of phenobartial could make it mute." (s. 25-26)”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
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