Cameren

“I was giving my final cast notes when the cramping began. I went to the girls' bathroom, sat down in a stall, and pulled down my jeans.
I apologize in advance for what I am about to describe.
Imagine a jellyfish as big as an ashtray. Now turn that jellyfish dark bloodred and multiply it by a few hundred. Now imagine pulling down your Sergio Valente jeans and seeing hundreds of ashtray-size bloodred jellyfish pouring out of you. That's what happened to me.
"AUUUUUUUUUGH!" I started screaming.
AUUUUUUGH!"
The bloody pieces - the lining of my uterus, I guess- kept gushing from my body and into the water. It was like my insides were falling out. I tried to catch them in my hands to stop it. There was too much. Plunk. plunk, plunk, plunk. It was endless. A deluge!”
― Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life

“You have a sense of humour. I am in favor of jokes. They have political value. Jokes are a release for the cowardly and the impotent.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

“What did he mean? He had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth! What did he know about the kind of despair that had been mine?”
― V.C. Andrews, Dark Angel

“... she was of the belief that a kind omission is worth more than a pointless truth...”
― Allende Isabel