
Take Me Apart: A Novel

“If you were easy, I wouldn’t love you so much.”
Sara Sligar • Take Me Apart: A Novel
She felt tears coming up in her throat, but they stopped there, as if even crying would require too much energy.
Sara Sligar • Take Me Apart: A Novel
Kate was so tired of being worried about, in all its senses. Feared, feared for.
Sara Sligar • Take Me Apart: A Novel
It turned out that in the throes of depression, Kate was a better driver than ever before: she slowed at yellows, never accelerated to merge, didn’t get impatient with traffic.
Sara Sligar • Take Me Apart: A Novel
Everything grows too large in my mind.
Sara Sligar • Take Me Apart: A Novel
Hate, like love, will multiply to fill an allotted space.
Sara Sligar • Take Me Apart: A Novel
Anyway, I’m the librarian, and librarians don’t need baths.”
Sara Sligar • Take Me Apart: A Novel
All the talk these people give about wanting to raise well-rounded children. Natural everything, no chemicals, no dyes, wearing handwoven shawls $200 each. And then they come to me and say breasts are too much for these kids.
Sara Sligar • Take Me Apart: A Novel
“I haven’t had fruits or vegetables in three days,” she told him one day. “I’m going to be the first person in the world to get scurvy from having sex.”
Sara Sligar • Take Me Apart: A Novel
I'll beat you to it