A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.