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“What if a family isn't a tree at all? What if it's more like a forest? A collection of individuals, pooling their resources by intertwined roots, sheltering each other from wind and weather and drought... what are families other than fictions? Stories told about a particular cluster of people for a particular reason. And like all stories, families are not born, they're invented. Pieced together from love and lies and nothing else.”
― Greenwood
― Greenwood
“I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard to unravel.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“It’s a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“men who wrote tender, poetic sentences that tried to hide the narcissism and misogyny of their stories.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius; and the uniformity of a work denotes the hand of a single artist.’ Edward Gibbon”
― Solitude a Return to the Self
― Solitude a Return to the Self
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