She yells at passing cars, “Are you afraid of Virginia Woolf? Are you?”

“You’re the girl who chomped down on the Snickers bar when the Pope died.”

With screens mediating their worlds, kids tend to interact less and less with nature.

He wouldn’t make a conscious move either way but stood there tying the truth and anti-truth together.

“She is battery operated,” Angel, the online sales person, had explained when Isabelle had placed her order. “But you’ll never know it.”

It was the first time I’d ever heard of someone smiling at a drowning.

What happened to our sister would always be at the center of our lives. My family, the four of us now, would be planets forever revolving around that moment.

“My book is…the story of a woman that takes life by the balls and squeezes everything out of it.”

This bear is the only thing that acts like I should do something other than commit suicide.

what you can’t foresee can’t hurt you but for now poked in the eye / of the storm, we hover.