Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.
I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.
People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.