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    Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

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    And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

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    A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

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    Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

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    Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

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    Coffee goes great with sudden death.

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    Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

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    For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.

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    Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

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    Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

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    I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laugh. Getting out of the bath and seeing, out of the corner of my eye, down the side of a leg: baby-doll. Pulling on a sweater, and in a flash of my wrist: harmful. Why these words?

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    I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

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    I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

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    I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

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    I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

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    I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

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    I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.

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    I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

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    I had no sympathy for drama queens.

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    I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

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    I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

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    I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

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    I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

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    I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

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    I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row-I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours-eight big hours outside my home- was unfeasible.

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    I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

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    Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

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    I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

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    I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.

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    It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

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    It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

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    It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

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    It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

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    I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

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    I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

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    I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

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    I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

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    I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.

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    Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

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    Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

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    My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.'

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    My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

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    My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

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    Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

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    People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.

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    People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

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    People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

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    Republicans go to Sam’s Club, Democrats go to Costco.

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    She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

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    She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.