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Jaime

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The Skin and Its Girl

by Sarah Cypher (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, fairy-tale, family, fiction, lgbtq, culture, storytelling

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Oct 26, 2023 09:32AM

“If you begin to accept your illness, or even to love it, you worry that you might want to keep it around. You think, when you feel bad, that you will never long for it, but in truth you do, since it provides such clear instruction for existing, brings with it the sharpened optics of life without futurity, the purity of the double vision of any life lived on the line.”
― Anne Boyer, The Undying

tags: cancer, illness

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“He didn't understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love.”
― Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

tags: daughters, family-relationships, harm, love, mothers, mothers-and-daughters, relationships

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“Asking for sympathy is just another way of asking for permission.”
― Peter Ho Davies, A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself

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“All the years of ritual—undressing and dressing, diaper changes, potty time, bath time, tooth brushing, reading, hugs and kisses—are so exhausting. If they don’t fall asleep beside him, whoever is on bedtime duty stumbles downstairs, announces wearily, “And that concludes today’s parenting.” Until the next day, and the next and the next. As if it were a curse and not a blessing. As if it really were forever.”
― Peter Ho Davies, A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself

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“The exhausted are the saints of the wasted life, if a saint is a person who is better than others at suffering. What the exhausted suffer better is the way bodies and time are so often at odds with each other in our time of overwhelming and confused chronicity, when each hour is amplified past circadianism, quadrupled in the quarter-hour's agenda, Pomodoro-ed, hacked, FOMO-ed, and productivized. The exhausted are the human evidence of each minute misunderstood to be an empire for finance, of each human body misunderstood to be an instrument that should play a thousand compliant songs at once.”
― Anne Boyer, The Undying

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