Status Updates From The Book of Ayn

“And so it was strange to be nearly forty and not the beautiful, erotic adult woman to my own ten-year-old daughter. To be still the guilty, creeping child.”

“No one on the internet had asked me not to kill myself; in fact one of them had suggested I take my book out onto the penthouse balcony and use it as a parachute. It didn't matter that I lived twenty floors below the actual penthouse. These people cared nothing for nuance.”