Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.
This wasn’t any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
The future is just wasted on some people.
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?
What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.
Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.
A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You’re always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
At this rate, we’ll never get to the future.
Proof that no investment is yours forever.
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I’ve done it a million times! But I don’t want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.
I would pay snakes to bite her.
The cancer I don’t have is everywhere now.