Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.
What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.