"We live in a city where people will steal the hair off your head if you give them half a chance, but you leave your s…"

"She and Coz were collaborators, writing a story whose end had already been determined: she would get well”"

"It jarred Sasha to think of herself as a glint in the hazy memories that Alex would struggle to organize a year or tw…"

"All her excitement had seeped away, leaving behind a terrible sadness, an emptiness that felt violent, as if she'd be…"

"[Coz] was trying to get Sasha to use that word, which was harder to avoid in the case of a wallet than with a lot of …"

"The shame memories began early that day for Bennie, during the morning meeting, while he listened to one of his senio…"

"I can't tell if [Alice’s] actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes…"

""Women are cunts," his father says. "That's why.” "They are not—" He can't make himself repeat the word. "They are," …"

"Every night, my mother ticks off another day I've been clean. It's more than a year, my longest yet. "Jocelyn, You've…"

"I looked down at the city. Its extravagance felt wasteful, like gushing oil or some other precious thing Bennie was h…"