You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
Peopleโs lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable โ deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.