“Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.”
“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
“Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.”
“Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. ”
“Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.”
“In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.”