Now, I recognize that these are very real possibilities." I said. "But let's pretend for a second that they aren't. - Joey Comeau

Sometimes Margaret tells herself that there's a moral difference between killing kittens for no reason and what she does.

...There’s a romance to danger. There’s a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.

Her face is bent out of shape, but still recognizable. There are too many teeth in her mouth, now. It is torn open at the sides. Split along her cheeks, so the weird jagged stones of her teeth can breathe.