To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.
To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
Coffee goes great with sudden death.
Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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.
Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.