“People cause pain. Even good people hurt those they love. We all do it because we can’t help it. Most of us aren’t evil; we’re just stupid and flawed and not careful with others.”
― Jane Doe
― Jane Doe
“What if you colonize your own mind and when you get inside, the furniture is attached to the ceiling? What if you step inside and when you touch the furniture, you realize it's all just cardboard cutouts and it all collapses beneath the pressure of your finger? What if you get inside and there's no furniture? What if you get inside and it's just you in there, sitting in a chair, rolling figs and eggs around in the basked of your lap and humming a little tune? What if you get inside and there's nothing there, and then the door hatch closes and locks?
What is worse: being locked outside of your own mind, or being locked inside of it?”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
What is worse: being locked outside of your own mind, or being locked inside of it?”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness. Pray that one day, you will spin around at the water’s edge, lean over, and be able to count yourself among the lucky.”
― Her Body and Other Parties
― Her Body and Other Parties
“Why do you want to hide it from me?'
'I'm not hiding it. It just isn't yours.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
'I'm not hiding it. It just isn't yours.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
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