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To keep the baby safe, we sealed the house as if against bad weather.
People assume married cartoonists are laughing all the time.
I looked up how much everything would cost. Giving birth: $9,000.
They’d developed Santa’s entire system, had written the code.
If you tear down the web it will simply know this isn’t a place to call home.
It was as the angel speaking of Isaac, a deception, a test to survive.
All that existed was Louisa’s beauty—or Khin’s refashioning of it.
Dad doesn’t believe I’m beauty queen material. I believe in myself.
I am going to relate to you the most lamentable love affair of my life.
Her body had become a scale, a device for measuring grief.
She wags her index finger so furiously that I’m certain it will snap off.
She’s coming back, her arms full of the flowers I gave her once a year.
It’s a girls’ college we’re going to, but all the guys know Polly’s name.
We all agreed we would evolve into something, a family of sorts.
Elinor had loved a man. The journey’s purpose was that she might forget.
Ms. Marmelstein led with her eyelashes, curling out like scimitars.
We know of friends and relatives who have passed away, young and old.
These days I watch the world go by and do not breathe life into it.
My wife had time to form a thought: I have killed my daughter.
Then came “the sea of trouble” as he crumpled his bank statement.
Cruelty is cruelty and you don’t ask why, you just hit first and hit hard.
They’re still there since they never grew old. The story is never finished.
I must never go to the garden without a heavy stick or a corn-knife.
I keep dripping milk until I’m sitting in a pool of it, sticky, white. I can’t move.
I’ve read this novel at various stages of my life and I feel as if I know Isabel.
Try never to repeat rhymes, not once in an entire show. It tires the ear.
She knew Jim would be a terrible husband. They’d murder each other.
I am desperate to love myself, to tolerate myself, vanity is fine.
