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It’s odd how life works …

'I've always thought that love thrives on a certain kind of distance,' Leo says at one point, 'that it requires an awed separateness to continue. Without that necessary remove, the physical minutiae of the other person grows ugly in its magnification.'

Only fictions. But we all live there, in the imaginary stories we tell ourselves about our lives

The child inevitably haunts the adult

Inverted hysterias
Nowadays girls make boundaries. The hysterics wanted to explode them. Anorexics build them up.

When you’re young, I think it’s harder to know what you want, how much of others you’re willing to take in

I suppose we are all the products of our parents’ joy and suffering. Their emotions are written into us

When I’m looking at a beautiful, sexy woman in a picture, I’m always both her and the person who’s looking at her. The eroticism comes from the fact that I can imagine I’m him looking at me

I always felt that there was an invisible wire between them, stretched nearly to a breaking point

I often thought of our marriage as one long conversation

Bob was working as a gravedigger, a career choice that suggested a refreshing lack of ambition.

Mine is a story of almosts.

I went along because, if nothing else, it was guaranteed to drive my father out of his mind.

Migrant labor, that’s the life for us - said no one, ever.

This was America, a brutal landscape inhabited by hopeless, motor-mouthed simpletons, drifting from a bad place somewhere even worse.

It was her habit to speak for both of us, and I rarely minded as it kept me from having to make any decisions of my own.

Electroshock, brain surgery, hypnotism - I was willing to try anything. Under a doctor’s supervision, I would buckle down and really change, I swore I would.

The Leonard family coat of arms pictured a bottle of scotch and a tumor. [his mom]

Someone might be your blood relative, but it didn’t mean you had to love her. It wasn’t enough to provide your children with a home, a person had to be fun while doing it.

Ya- Ya - He worked, she worked, their child worked; they never expected anything more out of life.

Childhood was something you endured until you were old enough to work

Rather than improve her social standing, she chose to spit children, each one filthier than the last.