Gerald’s Game

He knew she wasn't kidding about not wanting to go on with it.

He knew, but he had chosen not to know he knew. Could a person do that?

That deep stuff had scared her. Now, all these years later, she was discovering it still did ... but it still infuriated her, as well.
You won’t put out the sun, she thought, without the slightest idea of what this meant. Be damned if you will

“Bring on the night.”

days of doing things simply because it’s a man doing the telling are over.

Being safely locked in the familiar surroundings of one’s own car was a wonderful restorative

being an adult seemed more like a punishment than a reward.

Things especially changed in the dark, it said, when a person was alone.

She wants to change the past, but the past is heavy-trying to do that, she discovers, is like trying to pick up the house by one corner so you can look under it for things that have been lost, or forgotten, or hidden.

is it right to be left alone when the one you love is never home?

Sometimes, she was discovering, it was impossible to take the mind’s advice, no matter how good it was.