Status Updates From Tilt: A Novel

“At the end of the world, the men with the guns make the rules. We've known this forever.”

“There’s nothing a woman hates more than walking by herself, and hearing a strange noise, or feeling the presence of an "other" … women are so unsafe, all of us always pretending to be safe, always avoiding any reminder that our safety is upheld only as long as the person closest to us keeps deciding not to kill us”
"Wow" I say, all sweet. It's a woman thing: the more scared you get, the nicer you have to be

“What do I say? What can I say? That I understand? That my ache for your father is burning a hole through my body.
That I miss him so much it seems bizarre that I cannot send a telepathic wave of longing from my body to his. That one time, I looked at his face and it was so familiar to me, I wondered if he was real or somebody I had dreamed up.”