[b]Liane Moriarty
It drove her to distraction the way women wanted to bond over self-hatred.[/b]
He wondered: What sort of distractions? And how do they differ from the ones that men deploy?
It was interesting how you could say things when you where walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye contact across a table.
On the other hand, don’t expect this to work all the time. If it ever does.
I’d be at work where people respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I’d come home and it was like I was the village idiot.
Not countng all the times it’s the other way around.
Shut up said Madeline.
I thought we didn’t say ‘shut up’ in our house.
Fuck off, then, said Madeline.
Means about the same thing, right?
You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else’s tragedy - but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you.
There’s probably a good reason for that.
Bonnie is so ‘calm,’ you see. The opposite of me. She speaks in one of those soft . . . low . . . melodious voices that make you want to punch a wall.
In other words, not only when she’s wrong.