It’s a great irony. We creative people tend to be highly sensitive. Yet we are drawn to the jobs that dish out the most criticism.
“Paulie Aandeg’s been found. After twenty-four years, the boy in the sailor suit has come home.”
― Bloodline
― Bloodline
“You’re saying this is how my mom is telling me she loves me?” He shrugged. “Might be all she has to offer.”
― Litani
― Litani
“That’s the thing about small-town boys. All they had to do was come up with that one shtick, a crack at just the right time, or a Hail Mary touchdown, or nail the part of Romeo in the class play, and they were set. They never had to try again. Here’s the thing about small-town girls: we let them get away with it. But not now. I didn’t have time for it.”
― Unspeakable Things
― Unspeakable Things
“Less of the worst was better than more.”
― If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
― If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
“Boys don’t know how to be uncomfortable in their bodies, I realized, even the ones who don’t look great. It’s not that they can’t be shy, or sad, or scared, just like girls. It’s that they haven’t been taught their bodies are bad their whole lives, like we are.”
― Litani
― Litani
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