You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.