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I just love Elsie... I aspire to be a freakin' ol' grandma like her

‘Do they really believe I hurt Billy? And my mother? And my baby
sister?’
Christos shrugged. ‘I have no idea what people believe. But I would
guess they don’t care if you did or not.’
‘Then why –’
‘For whatever reason, you’re the common enemy. People need one. For
bonding. And for keeping themselves out of the firing line. Also
evolutionary, I think.’ This time he didn’t laugh. ‘But very unfair.’

I’ve been a single woman all
my life – I’ve unclogged drains, ousted spiders, and investigated suspicious
noises without missing a beat. The fact that I am nervous about answering
the front door in the middle of the day feels like a betrayal of myself, not to
mention of all the women who paved the way before me

It strikes me that, with all the cruelties in this
world, there is still nothing quite as dangerous as kindness.

I was in the sort of pain that makes death seem like a kind option.
Surgery was minutes away. I had never been less okay. And I’ll tell you
something – it changes a person, this sort of pain. It changed me
irrevocably. After I experienced it, I became blacker inside.

Odd. I wonder, idly, if Roxanne might be a very friendly drug
addict. She does always look tired.

The relentless inevitability of school, day after
day after day. To add insult to injury, it’s sold to you by older folk like it’s a
golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Talk about gaslighting.

It feels unethical to dislike a child this much