It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

this time has finished me.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.