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Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

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— Sep 21, 2026 02:55PM

Sep 21, 2026 02:56PM

“I think she wants to eat me. I think she would inhale me if she could. I think she'd crawl herself inside of me if she thought that's where she'd find something that I've kept hidden from her. God help me. Would I let her? I would let her. God help me she looks at me. God help me I don't want her to look away.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

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“She was pretty in a way that men thought women ought to be pretty.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

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“Who are you?' She said, 'Have you always been like this? Have you just been waiting to happen?”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

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“She had held a pear in her hand and she had eaten it skin and all. She had eaten the stem and she had eaten its seeds and she had eaten its core, and the hunger still sat in her like an open maw. She thought: I can hold you and find that I still miss your body. She thought: I can listen to you speak and still miss the sound of your voice.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

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“And then: one quiet and freezing morning Isabel went for a walk. The trees stood bare and skeletal and beautiful with their fingers all crystal and white. The frost had made everything a crunch, the pastures and the fields and the gravel paths. The canals had frozen over. Isabel tested one with her foot and found it solid, and then stood on it in wonder: a miracle, she thought, to stand so solidly on what could also engulf you.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

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