“The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.”

“The air is so clean out here, so fresh. Reminds me of when I was a little girl in Georgia." Then she took More from her pack and lit it.”

“It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?”

“Six hours later, when I returned, I was greeted at the door- and this before it was even opened -by the overpowering smell of vinegar. What were my neighbors thinking? That a douche-obsessed woman with a gigantic, three-foot vagina lived next door?”

“Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all.But holes are interesting things.”

“Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.”

“Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.”