“Normally this is where she would have told him to put his dick in the doorway, so she could slam the door shut on her way out”

“Oh I never fake it... I make it a point never to reward bad behavior”

“One definition for rebound is, increasing strength after a previous decline. Another is to bounce back and make a recovery”

“Bell lifted her hand to her chest. Her heart beat so quickly. She was floating out on a tide of agony, and soon she would be carried so far she'd never come back.”

“The thing to do was to insult her or slap her or run her out into the night. She’d left him with all their children. She was holding another man’s baby in her arms. Anyone would agree that he ought to do something terrible to her, but she had been gone fifteen hours, and in that fifteen hours his life had crumbled like a lump of dry earth.”

“My dick didn't seem to be aware that she was there. She kept asking me what was wrong, and I was so out of it that I thought she meant what was wrong with the world, so I started talking about global poverty and shit. I'm not surprised she left. I suspect she won't be coming back.”

“The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer.”