A review by jacqui_des
Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill

2.0

Memorable Quotes

Folk Song
"Safe in her sweating, loose, and very wet embrace, surrounded by the dense energy of many men, his penis could tell her the secret story of murder right in front of everyone. Her worn vagina would hold the killer like it had held the husband and the lover and the sharpie and the father and the nitwit and every other man, his terrible story a tiny, burning star in the right-ful firmament of her female vastness."

"They want heaven and they will go to hell to get there."

An Old Virgin
"Sometimes things that look really ugly on the outside look different when you get up close."

The Agonized Face
"We are glad to have the topless dancer to remind us of that dark area in the basement where personality is irrelevant and crude truth prevails."

"Mommy, Mommy!” I remembered washing her as a baby, using the spray hose from the kitchen sink to rinse shit from the swollen petals of her infant slit—a hole she may fall down if she opens it too early, a dark Wonderland of teeth and bones and crushing force. The hole in life, a hole we cannot see into, no matter how closely we look."

"Inside love, anger still secretly burns—but it is a tiny flame. I can hold it like I once held my daughter in my body, a world within a world."

Mirror Ball
"He embraced her, and for a moment he felt that holding her was like holding a bit of liquid flame."