I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.