Every hobby I have I picked up from a man who I wanted to love me. I don’t know how to not become the people I bring home.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party

so here I am, naming the lover as the sweetest thing the mouth will ever know.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party

There comes a time when you must explain to your friends why you stayed.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party

i will do the burying.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party

i can’t ask him to do it nicely, i can’t beg for no blood.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party

We are sitting on the cusp of spring. We are always sitting on the cusp of spring.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party

I want everything to be big and loud and forever and certain and true.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party

I didn’t want to become the kind of woman who is always nervous but I didn’t want to become my mother either.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party

If it was socially acceptable to bite people, every person in this city would have a chunk ripped out of their thigh in the shape of my mouth.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party

She deserves to be somewhere where no one is afraid of her and maybe that place is death.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party