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“Audry Hepburn on the cover of The Nun's Story was staring up at me from my unmade bed. Her hair was hidden by her snow-white wimple; her big eyes looked frightened.
"What are you looking at?" I said. "Fuck you." It was the first time I'd ever said the word. I felt a brief shiver of power.

Then I sat back on the bed and sobbed. Dolores Price: Lady of Sorrow.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

“You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Eventually, I reached the other side of the chasm and understood the differences between the two men. I no longer hated Daddy: he had been a shitty father and a shitty husband - a man who's made two bad choices based on lust and coveting and then been too weak either to live with them or undo them. But he had not been a rapist.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

“Rosalie sat sideways in her chair, shaking from the laughter she was swallowing. I imagined myself drawing a gun from desk, taking aim, and killing her without so much as a quiver.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone