"I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again."

Growth, Failure, Career, Identity

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"I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again."

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"The man cocked his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back."

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"I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can."

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"I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest."

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"I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one."

Emotion

"There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile,it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad."

Boundaries

"I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people-people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin-that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life."

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"A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort."

Trauma

"Desi has loved me ever since the lie, I know he pictures making love to me, how gentle and reassuring he would be as he plunged into me, stroking my hair. I know he pictures me crying softly as I give myself to him."

Obsession

"Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done."

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