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“I’m not really a suffragist. I mean, I’m not a formal member of the Association.”
“Nor am I, and yet I persist in having all manner of opinions and observations.”
― The Once and Future Witches
“Nor am I, and yet I persist in having all manner of opinions and observations.”
― The Once and Future Witches
“Alison realized the Cousins usually looked tired and vaguely depressed. It was as though being here and dealing with regular human people was just so much work.”
― The Doors of Eden
― The Doors of Eden
“What's as perfect as a girl stopped dead, midformation? Girl as blank slate. Girl as reflection of your desires, unmarried by her own. Girl as sacrifice to the idea of girl. Girl as a series of childhood photographs, all marked with the aura of girl who will die young, as if even the third grade portrait photographer should have seen it written on her face, that this was a girl who would only ever be a girl.
The bystander, the voyeur, even the perpetrator—they're all off the hook when the girl was born dead.
On the internet and on TV, they love that.”
― I Have Some Questions for You
The bystander, the voyeur, even the perpetrator—they're all off the hook when the girl was born dead.
On the internet and on TV, they love that.”
― I Have Some Questions for You
“I don't die from not waking up, and I don't die falling from the edge of the atmosphere either. I'm not written off as Acceptable Wastage. They have to work out very carefully the precise level of expense that's necessary, and the precise percentage of failed deliveries — meaning dead people — this entails. Because who wants to spend a single cent more than you have to when you're shipping convicts to die in a work camp? People who've gone against the system are now going to pay their dues permanently, for the rest of their lives. People like me. I hear the figures later: twenty per cent Acceptable Wastage. If that sounds like an absurd loss of investment, then you don’t know the history of people shipping other people against their will from place to place.”
― Alien Clay
― Alien Clay
“But I've cared as much, I admit, about people I haven't met. I care about Judy Garland and Natalie Wood and the Black Dahlia. I care about the lacrosse player murdered by her ex at UVA, and the girl whose boyfriend was definitely not working at LensCrafters that day, and the high school student killed in her boyfriend's Shaker Heights home while everyone slept, and poor Martha Moxley, and the woman in the hotel elevator, and the only Black woman at the white-lady wine party, dead on the lawn, and the woman shot through the bathroom door by her famous boyfriend, who claimed he thought she was a burglar. I have opinions about their deaths, ones I'm not entitled to. I'm queasy, at the same time, about the way they've become public property, subject to the collective imagination. I'm queasy about the fact that the women whose deaths I dwell on are mostly beautiful and well-off. That most were young, as we prefer our sacrificial lambs. That I'm not alone in my fixations.”
― I Have Some Questions for You
― I Have Some Questions for You
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