“At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen.”

“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.”

“It was one of the few stories we told the same way.”

“A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.”

“Things might not be great, but things would be okay.”

“what are you thinking, Amy? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we ddone to each other? What will we do?”

“... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile.”

“She is an incredibly intelligent idiot”

“She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.”

“Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.”

“Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.- Camille Preaker”