“She likes the mystery of that changeover, those fifteen minutes of sundown when the streets and trees and people and parked cars are delicate and immediate, every sound and smell and movement amplified by the lowest light or the lightest… — 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 Image
“My heart perceived wildernesses of contradictions and impossible truths and mystical lies.” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Isn't it crazy how anger sometimes feels like joy? Just a crash of blood through your heart.” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The gravity of any location pulls citizens to its heart, organizing people by abstractly spiritual geography.” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
