Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

We're the culture that cried wolf.