Vince Fusilli held up his lighter… It was the best we could do for an eternal flame. - The Virgin Suicides

We realised that the version of the world they had rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass, they didn't give a damn about lawns.

The room’s changes- water bugs adhering to walls, one bobbing dead mouse- only heightened what hadn’t changed

So much has been written about the girls in the newspapers, so much has been said over back-yard fences, or related over the years in psychiatrists’ offices, that we are certain only of the insufficiency of explanations.