time to put on your miner's hat and headed toward the bright light.
Megan AbbottYou have to decide who you are, little girl, she told me once. Once you know that, everyone else will too.
Megan AbbottIf you didn't feel it on your body long after he'd left, was it really worth laying for him? I wanted to feel that.
Megan AbbottThere's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.
Megan AbbottShe said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.
Megan AbbottWhen you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all.
Megan AbbottNo, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.
Megan AbbottI think she might cry. In her way, she is.
Megan AbbottPretend you're me," she says. I can barely see her over the frothy mound.
And it happens just like that.
A feeling of sinking, a falling deep inside.
And I'm her.
And this is my house, and Matt French is my husband, tallying columns all day, working late into the night for me, for me.
And here I am, my tight, my perfect body, my pretty, perfect face, and nothing could ever be wrong with me, or my life, not even the sorrow that is plainly
right there in the center of it. Oh, Colette, it's right there in the center of you, and some kind of despair too. Colette--
--that silk sucking into my mouth, the weight of it now, and I can't catch my breath, my breath.
Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break through something in front of her, something no one else saw.
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