“It’s just half an hour, / it’s just a marriage, just a week’s worth of sex, it’s just / easier to move my thumb along the screen protector / like it’s tender, it’s just grief after grief after / your kid at a baseball game after grief after gif / after grief”

"Getting clean meant coming to terms with all the ways that the most comforting aspects of your life could also be the most destructive."

“Hope and momentum propelled us through recessions and housing crises, through breakups, deaths, wars, and other losses.”

“Hurting someone for their own good is easier than she thought it might be.”

“She made me sit next to her, arms shaved thoroughly, her skin covered in razor burns. ‘We’ll get another one.’”

“Her life is not a goddamn movie. How’s this for plot? Fires erupt when people aren’t paying attention.”

There is trouble on the street tonight. Had a premonition that she should not go alone. She caught me stealing once when I was five. I enjoy stealing. It is as simple as that. It is just a simple fact. Because mutiny on the bounty is what we are all about. We are going to board your ship and turn it on out. 

You people read about our town in the news—first the rape allegations, then Dolly Molly, then the car accident—and you think you know what happened. You think you know something about who we are.