First I showered off that horrible butt smell you get from being on an airplane. [p. 257]

“If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to w…”

“There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; wh…”

“She said to go ahead and feel the feelings. I did. They felt like shit.”

“After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to he…”