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“Our female friends, the close ones, are the mini-breaks we take from the totalitarian work it requires to keep up the performance of being female.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“Choices must be made. In life as in writing, you kill your darlings. You kill, anyway, and then you see what you can take with you.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“American girls grow up knowing the intrinsic importance of having female friends; our girlfriends are our bosom buddies, a term that links the girlishly erotic with the emotionally intimate. There is no Emma Woodhouse without Harriet Smith; there is no Beatrice without Hero; there is no Anne Shirley without Diana Barry. Sex and the City, The Group, Gossip Girl, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Thelma & Louise—American popular culture is positively lousy with BFFs (not even death can separate that final pair). Men may come and men may go, but in American culture, at least, a girl’s bosom buddy will always be another woman.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“I maintain that love can’t simultaneously be an accident and a premeditated act, yet we treat it as if it is. It’s a necessary fiction, love’s oxymoronic nature. Love’s a contranym as sharp as “cleave” and twice as dangerous.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger