A Talent for Murder

our memories are never reliable, that what we are actually remembering is not the event itself, but a replay of the last time we remembered the event

isn’t falling in love with someone else a risk for everyone in a marriage

“teachers are the worst at conferences, like poorly behaved children. They do things they’d never let their own students do.

Someone is dead.
Even the trees know it.
—Anne Sexton, “Lament”