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“Yoga was still terrible, like a game of Simon Says with no winner.”
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
“If you sneer at religion as the opiate of the masses, you must sneer also at the brain, because the receptors are there. You must sneer at the body, which knows how to feel that bliss. What I mean is, a sweet look of lying down in poppy fields, of feeling control finally by giving over control, a look of wild and then tame relinquishment.”
― Priestdaddy
― Priestdaddy
“The article says Strane groomed the girls. Groomed. I repeat the word over and over, try to understand what it means, but all I can think of is the lovely warm feeling I'd get when he stroked my hair.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“Even when the best things occur, when the sun is angled just enough to offer light or there is beauty somewhere shining in the distance, the voice says‚ This will not last. You do not deserve this peace. Remember that time . . . remember how he cried . . . remember how she shook with disappointment. Remember how you break everything you touch”
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
“What she worried for was not just her sister's life but her originality. She loved Star Wars so much, fur instance, that she had walked down the aisle to "The Imperial March". Would the impulse to walk down the aisle to "The Imperial March" - which seemed the essence of survival itself, the little tune we hummed in the dark - would that make it out of whatever was happening alive?”
― No One Is Talking About This
― No One Is Talking About This
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