People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.