Helen

“You are loved, someone said. Take that and eat it.”
― Mary Karr

“The week the local paper carried a story about the boy’s incarceration and lobotomy in the state hospital at Rusk, the guys at the refinery pitched the kid’s daddy a party complete with balloons and noisemakers.”
― Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

“Unless you’re a doubter and a worrier, a nail-biter, an apologizer, a rethinker, then memoir may not be your playpen. That’s the quality I’ve found most consistently in those life-story writers I’ve met.”
― Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir

“Find the hole in the paper.”
― Stephen King, Misery