Mandy Buffington

“I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.”
― Mary Karr, Lit

“If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.”
― Mary Karr, Lit

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.”
― Mary Karr, Lit