Cancer will be like that, I tell Marla. There will be mistakes, and maybe the point is not to forget the rest of yourself if one little part might go bad.

“As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.”

“They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad. ”

“It felt good to stand out from the world, just mysterious and pious. You weren'…”

“The easy thing to do was give her the ben­efit of the doubt.”