“Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.”
“I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.”
“All I could see was my life without you in it. And it was a fucking dark and horrible place.”
“I steeled myself for this interaction. Fact: I knew I could talk to people. Fact: Children were little people. Little, scary people. I took solace in the fact that if this demonstration went horribly wrong, I could probably outrun them.”
“There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.”
“Perry, the manager, had come up with him, in trousers and bathrobe. He was a stout, jovial-looking man ordinarily, but right now he was only stout.("The Room With Something Wrong")”