“Taped to her wall, where someone else might hang a crucifix, is a page torn from Rolling Stone: Prince in a misty… — Jardine Libaire Rolling stone Copy Share Image
“A dinner party is the oldest experiment. Trap a bunch of souls in a room. Faces move like painted moons, rising and… — Jardine Libaire Dinner party Copy Share Image
“She comes from fighters—her mom can drive a stick shift, smoke a cigarette, drink a soda, put on mascara, and deliver a… — Jardine Libaire Family Copy Share Image
“Fucking, drinking, smoking, loving, living, freebasing, spending, laughing, crying, working, falling apart, kissing, writing, blacking out.” — Jardine Libaire Falling apart Copy Share Image
“But Elise eclipses the woman from Jamey's future, the lady in tennis whites flashing her diamond as she drinks orange juice fresh-squeezed… — Jardine Libaire Orange juice Copy Share Image
“The stuff that changes your life is never very dramatic. You know? Not to other people.” — Jardine Libaire Life Copy Share Image
“Outside my window, truckers trucked, hookers fucked, cops cruised, kids smoked, elders yelled, invalids slept, spouses fought, lovers kissed, while I watched… — Jardine Libaire Marriage Copy Share Image
“So much of life is about standing on the curb, wiling to see what rolls up.” — Jardine Libaire Life Copy Share Image
“I now doubted myself. Innocencce was finite and could not be regenerated. Like spinal fluid. I knew this because I had run… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“Many hours later, Elise and Jamey go home, after dancing and fire juggling and ice queens, and they never see Frankie again.… — Jardine Libaire Ice queen Copy Share Image
“The dreaminess of the night shift is constant, and objects float - keys and coffee cups and Chinese containers and tissues. Time… — Jardine Libaire Coffee cup Copy Share Image
“She switches moods in a heartbeat not because she's out of control - she just doesn't care what it looks like to… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“Elise thinks of Denise's laugh cracking like thunder over the Turnbull houses, the paprika in her chili, the way her bra cuts… — Jardine Libaire Too Hot Copy Share Image
“So many land mines in this new territory called adulthood. Talent has a window. Freedom sometimes becomes a trap. We may die… — Jardine Libaire Big sur Copy Share Image
“Seeing herself do this, Elise realizes she always knew she would give the fruit away, at this exact moment, to that girl,… — Jardine Libaire Time Copy Share Image
“No one’s here this time of year except caretakers: often alcoholic friends of the family who can’t handle society, who hide and… — Jardine Libaire Community Copy Share Image
“She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“You go through life thinking that there's a secret to life. And the secret to life is there is no secret to… — Jardine Libaire Life Copy Share Image
But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down. — Jardine Libaire One day Copy Share Image
“She was handed more personality than other mortals, and chemically fertilized in a glasshouse - now her bionic strength allows her to… — Jardine Libaire Death Copy Share Image
