“It didn’t occur to me that what I wanted from S was the same thing that my mother craved from me: to have someone live in her pain with her.”
― My Body
― My Body
“Nostalgia is the suffering cause by our unappeased earing to return' Whether or not, he said, the home we long for ever existed.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“She had loved him, and he had needed to break her completely to leave her for good. Agnes Bain was too rare a thing to let someone else love. It wouldn't do to leave pieces of her for another man to collect and repair later.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
“When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“I wonder how many women you've disregarded in your life, written off, because you assumed they had nothing to offer beyond the way they looked. How quickly they learned that the stuff in their heads was of less value than the shape of their bodies. I bet they were all smarter than you.”
― My Body
― My Body
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