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“I keep talking, holding up both hands. “My point, Penelope, is that it’s not your problem to fix.”
“Of course it is!”
“Why?”
“Be-because-” she sputters. “Because it’s a problem that—that exists.”
“You’re responsible for all existing problems?”
She buries her hands in her hair. “No! But yes. What sort of person would I be if I didn’t help you?”
I try to look reassuring. “A normal one.”
― Any Way the Wind Blows
“Of course it is!”
“Why?”
“Be-because-” she sputters. “Because it’s a problem that—that exists.”
“You’re responsible for all existing problems?”
She buries her hands in her hair. “No! But yes. What sort of person would I be if I didn’t help you?”
I try to look reassuring. “A normal one.”
― Any Way the Wind Blows
“What a ridiculous creature. Happy that I put butter on his sandwich. As if I wouldn't make the world spin backwards if I thought he'd like it better that way.”
― Any Way the Wind Blows
― Any Way the Wind Blows
“I can touch you less gently, but I won't love you less kindly.”
― Any Way the Wind Blows
― Any Way the Wind Blows
“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
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