Home > Work > Hysteria
1 " I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment. "
― Megan Miranda , Hysteria
2 " If you pretend something hard enough, could it become real? "
3 " And then I started laughing. Horrible, really. But I was laughing. Because of all the things they could say about me, equal parts horrible and true, this was so far from the mark it was funny. "
4 " I knew how I was supposed to feel when I was with him. Well, I knew what I was not supposed to feel. I wasn't supposed to feel anxious. Not tense, either. Or maybe I was. Maybe this was normal. I didn't know. So I let him whisper in my ear and put his hands on my hips. And I listened to him list the ways in which I was slowly killing him. None of which turned out to be the actual way that I killed him. "
5 " My mother hid the knife block. "
6 " I hated that I felt jealous. Hated it. It's not like I'd been on my own waiting for him, just like he hadn't been waiting alone for me. We had lived, for two years. Made choices and mistakes, had good days and bad days. "