Like her earlier works, Bad Marie is human, deeply-felt, delightfully well-honed, and though stylized, stops short of quirkiness for quirkiness’ sake. More
"She never drank in the daytime. Only at night. Marie didn't see the harm: a little whiskey, a little chocolate. Marie liked to watch bad movies on TV while Caitlin slept. She liked wandering over to the fully stocked refrigerator and helping herself to whatever she wanted to eat. Marie constantly marveled over the food: French cheeses, left-over steak, fresh squeezed orange juice, raspberries imported from Portugal. It had only been three weeks since Marie's thirtieth birthday, the day that she had gotten out of jail."
— Marcy Dermansky, Bad Marie
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
