Amanda Corbin
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“You don’t become an English major because you love books. You do it because you need books. It’s a codependent relationship.”
“Wherever I was, I felt alone. I still feel this way now, as if the things I’ve seen have created a barrier between me and the living world, and there is nothing I can ever do… to remove it. Though I keep trying.”
― Madwoman
― Madwoman
“The world is not made for us [...] but this thing I'm starting to understand, transforming from felt to known, it's about the energy of violence. The way violence shrinks women, makes us feel lucky for things that aren't lucky. Even when we think we've outrun it, look back - see it's long reaching fingers touching every choice we've made.”
― Madwoman
― Madwoman
“Living seemed too painful. But something began to happen on my walks. I started to understand the choice to keep living was possibly not about the past, but rather a potential for some completely different future. That is, if I chose it.”
― Madwoman
― Madwoman
“Her breasts have swollen to celebrity size, there are bolts of electricity zapping the powerlines of her brain, and without any assistance from coffee, her body has awakened itself to the pitch of animal vigilance. The hormones have turned the volume of the world all the way up, angling her ears babyward, forcing her to listen--always listen--for his new and spitty voice. She feels like a fox. Like a fox on Adderall.”
― The Rabbit Hutch
― The Rabbit Hutch
“The coincidental nature of all social collision has always troubled the mother, even before she was a mother. To have a nationality, a lover, a family, a coworker, a neighbor--the mother understands these to be fundamentally absurd connections, as they are accidents, and yet they are the tyrants of every life.”
― The Rabbit Hutch
― The Rabbit Hutch
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