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“She’s-big-she’s-blond-she-works-in-deli Georgia”

— Laura Buzo

“Finishing Year Twelve had been a blessed relief. Although, having read Looking for Alibrandi several times since Year Eight, I was disappointed when Year…

— Laura Buzo

“I wonder briefly if I could somehow broker a deal with God whereby if I put both my arms around Chris, his suffering would…

— Laura Buzo

“She even takes the goings-on of fictitious characters personally.”

— Laura Buzo

“That fluttery feeling in my chest felt as though it was starting to bruise my rib cage.”

— Laura Buzo

“You’re very passionate about your unhappiness aren’t you, Chris?’ I responded with, “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.”

— Laura Buzo

“Oh, well. Love is pain. Or is it beauty is pain? I wouldn't know about the latter, but the former makes my sternum ache.”

— Laura Buzo

“A nurse and a social worker took fifteen minutes out of their shitty thankless job in the roughest corner of town, sat on a…

— Laura Buzo

“He would learn to accept his defeat gracefully – unlike Gatsby with the shotgun – and decide to get on with his life.”

— Laura Buzo

“I don't watch scary movies. I mean it. Not ever. They make me scared. Scared of being alone in the house. Scared of being…

— Laura Buzo

“I want to be enfolded by him somehow, and to possess him. To have unfettered and exclusive access to him all the time. To…

— Laura Buzo

“He may well be my nemesis. And my antithesis! How about that?”

— Laura Buzo

“Thanks for dinner," I say. "It almost makes up for the bastardry.”

— Laura Buzo

“The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate…

— Laura Buzo

“I can't run my own race. I'm constantly checking what's happening in the other lanes.”

— Laura Buzo