“What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around to be discovered just for being herself.”
― Green Girl
― Green Girl
“I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes; I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?”
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?”
― Green Girl
― Green Girl
“Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost.”
― Green Girl
― Green Girl
“The green girl necessarily pines for the past, because the present is too uncomfortable to be present in and the future, unimaginable. The need to long, to desire that which she cannot have, that which has eluded her, because she deceives herself that it was this person, this chance, where she would have found happiness.”
― Green Girl
― Green Girl
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