“What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.”Mary Karr Source: Lit
“I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.”Mary Karr Source: Lit
“The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.”Mary Karr Source: Lit