Bailey

“That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.”
― Raymond Carver

“I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.”
― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.”
― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net