Quite a metaphor. The person in the most pain wins. Does that mean I get a Blue Ribbon?
These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.
I’m only human, she told herself. There’s not enough room in my heart for everyone.
It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.
That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they’d ruined, got a little stale after a while.
Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.
It’s a matter of dignity,” the Chief explained. “At a certain point, that’s all you have left.
I’ve matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.
He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.
When I was writing ‘The Abstinence Teacher,’ I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
I don’t really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I’m writing. The two go together – I’m interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.