I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of thei...
But I couldn't have brought the child here, I never identified it as mine; I didn't name it before it was born even, the way you're supposed to. It was my husband's, he imposed it on me, all the time it was growing in me I felt like an incubator. He ...
The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
You all right?" he said again. I didn't love him, I was far away from him, it was as though I was seeing him through a smeared window or glossy paper; he didn't belong here. But he existed, he deserved to be alive. I was wishing I could tell him how ...
They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.
