Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.