Wendy Walker

We believe what we want to believe. We believe what we need to believe.

We were young, but we still understood why our father was driven mad by our mother’s indifference, and how his madness had taken over every part of his brain and his heart so there was nothing left for us.

Ones who have a scream inside them and ones who don’t.

People will stoop to low levels just to punish their spouse for leaving them.

there is evil in the world and that evil can dress up as love so convincingly that it blinds you to the truth.

That is where desire begins, and it does not just vanish the minute we command it to. I felt things I didn’t want to feel. Longing. Hunger. Disgust.

she had not once considered that her husband was having sex with a younger, prettier woman. I think this upset her more than the fact that her husband was cheating.

No one who has died can tell us what it feels like.

Life feels too strong to go away without some kind of agony.

I would rather live half as long feeling alive than twice as long feeling dead already.