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Laughed the way flood victims and earthquake survivors laughed. Laughed not because something was funny but because nothing was. === My husband is an impostor, she’d say. She imagined some smarmy desk sergeant replying, “Aren’t we all, ma’am?” === … “isn’t it sad that you can only love yourself if someone else gives you permission?” === … the woman whose bitterness everyone always mistook for courage. === “You say ‘fuck’ a lot.” “And why not?” he said. “It’s a great word. Verb, noun, adverb, adjective. ‘Fuck’ is fucking utile.” === There’s darkness in this world you can’t learn about watching TV and reading books.” === “I know a little bit about the darkness in this world,” Rachel told Trayvon Kessler. “Yeah?” His eyes searched hers. “Yeah.” “And what have you learned?” he whispered. “If you wait for it to find you, you’re already dead.”