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I could become something new. Improved. Like detergent.

So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.

He was frightened, a creature no more or less unbound by time than I am.

He didn’t mind, he insisted, that he loved her more than she loved him.

How do our lives disappear even while we’re in the midst of them?

She’d seen snakes before, but she’d never really looked at one, until now.

The cat was looking at me with an intelligent expression. It knew.

I figured he wouldn’t know for shit if the dog knew me or not, right?

A psychologist told me we can train our dreams. I practice each night.

You were drowning in the bathtub. Mother was in her room.

I drank every night until late and drew earth-shaking conclusions.

You live in this country, you put up bars, you train your dogs to snarl.

Get all of it. Set up the shots. Get beautiful stuff and get the ugliness.

The nights she and Wade have sex she can’t do so without feeling guilty.

The damn dog has been brainwashed. He doesn’t know
us anymore.

It was the way of the world: everybody wanted someone else.