Celia (insta: celiatingz)
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“…just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.”
― All My Puny Sorrows
― All My Puny Sorrows
“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“But we have all been branded even if you can't see it, inside if not without”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“The shroud itself became a story almost instantly. 'Penelope's web', it was called; people used to say that of any task that remained mysteriously unfinished. I did not appreciate the term web. If the shroud was a web, then I was a spider. But I had not been attempting to catch men like flies: on the contrary, I'd merely been trying to avoid entanglement myself.”
― The Penelopiad
― The Penelopiad
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