Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

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.

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.