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sometimes the love of strangers is much more terrifying than the hate

The way some women so willingly compromised every ounce of themselves in the name of building a life for themselves that they didn't enjoy.

They talked about nuclear families the same way they talked about nuclear bomb.

Another long drive back home, through the mountains and past the farms and down the long dirt road to the nightmare -I mean dream-of my own making, the world I molded with my own bare hands. Playdough husband, playdough children, playdough life.

I've spent far too much of my life chasing the light.

"Forward. Forward?"

 "Time only moves in one direction, Mom."

WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR YOU TO BE KIND?

Stop it. Stop feeling this way.

People aren't so different from pigs, apparently. Once they learn a rotten thing can be eaten, they will eat it, and then they will become addicted to it. They will let it drive them mad.

That’s what children and poverty do: suck the collagen right out of you.

Thank God someone finally drugged me.

He could be perfect for politics someday. It's actually one of the few positions of power where it benefits you to underthink. If you don't think too hard, you never get rattled.

This was it: the moment I lost my patience. So I did what any good Christian woman would do when she can no longer bear to do nothing: I went to my mother in tears, and she instructed me to call his mother in tears, and then his mother called him in a hurricane of humiliation and fury.

Sleep, breastfeed.

Breastfeed, sleep.

Sleep, sleep, sleep.

Breastfeed. Cry.

Breastfeed. Sleep.

Kill yourself.

No—sorry.

Sleep.

The days of yesteryear were not for the faint of heart.

Please let this plan work, Lord. Please don't let her win. And please give my husband a spine. I'm tired of him needing to borrow mine.

Amen.

Would a headline like that ruin a nascent political career? Assuredly not. America didn't care one iota about morality when it came to politicians. If anything, we expected them to be a little sleazy.

that lost little lamb, that stupid little bitch.