“I stood in my own field, wanting obligations to fall from me. This is one way of contemplating suicide, yet it's the exact opposite: what I wanted was to be alive, to escape all the damage, to shed it like… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“No one asked Jamey to be the policeman and pastor of egos. Why does he think this is his obligation?” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“My heart perceived wildernesses of contradictions and impossible truths and mystical lies.” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“She caught him in his schoolboy mode, polite and dutiful, mailing letters to his grandparents and step-siblings, notes full of nothing written in perfect… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“There's a way to resolve chaos and that's to finish what was started, and every organism knows this emergency plan without being told.” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“I didn't know the exact trajectory of my breakdown, but I did know that I'd become weak, holding onto wildness, cherishing the idea of… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“Isn't it crazy how anger sometimes feels like joy? Just a crash of blood through your heart.” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“Tory smokes, sitting on the floor with her impeccable posture, the gang of disciples around her. A few are straight, two gay, a couple… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“Night shift. Jamey raises his arm, and a hundred arms are raised. He smiles, with thousands of teeth. Jamey thinks of Narcissus bending to… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“Good luck with everything. Oh, the world will treat at least half of you like half a person at best, not worth any investment… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“He remembers noticing his dad's shadow was shorter than the others, and he had a visceral sense his father was weaker than the rest,… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“The gravity of any location pulls citizens to its heart, organizing people by abstractly spiritual geography.” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“I stood in my own field, wanting obligations to fall from me. This is one way of contemplating suicide, yet it's the exact opposite:… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
“Binkie, the one and only. He can hear her rings clacking on the plastic phone, and he chuckles, envisioning with amusement the bejeweled and… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share
