“I’M GOING TO TELL YOU this right now, Jaime. And it’s the absolute truth. Okay? If there’s one thing about life that I really want you to understand, it’s this.” I watched my mother take a drink of red wine and light another cigarette. “Women will try to ruin you. They will sink their claws into you and rip you to fucking pieces. They’ll destroy you, and they won’t think twice about it.” She yawned and slid her hand under her sunglasses, rubbing her eyes. “There’s no such thing as a nice girl, Jaime. We’re all fucking insane and we’re all fucking evil. We will betray you. We will. And then we’ll laugh behind your back afterward. We’ll lie to your face like it’s nothing. We’ll make you believe that we love you, but it’s not true. It’ll never be true. All we want is to fucking tear you down and shred you to pieces because we can. Because it’s so damn easy.” She poured another glass of wine and smiled. “If it has a cunt, it is a cunt, Jaime. And there’s no exception.
