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No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom.
“I love messy homes, homes where a woman and kids have left their mark on every inch: sticky finger marks down the walls, trinkets and nests of pastel hair-gadgets on the mantelpiece, that smell of flowery things and ironing.”
― Faithful Place
― Faithful Place
“The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion—to close a door in one's own self and forget it was ever there. If you had hate, then you could see suffering—and cause it—and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“My heart was my brother. And I no longer believe in a world that says he was too weak to deserve life.”
― Morning Star
― Morning Star
“Don't look at me like that," said Ruza.
"Like what?"
"Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.”
― Strange the Dreamer
"Like what?"
"Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.”
― Strange the Dreamer
“I become familiar with cold hard grounds. On a Friday night, I drink three too many glasses of wine and I call Finn. She makes no black humor jokes. It is not an erotic mess anymore, like Sabine once told me it was. The conflict and torture is not a sign of intelligence anymore, as Finn once told me it was. It is ugly. We are exhausted. Gutted. You're too hard! she yells at me. Be soft, she orders. I'm confused, I tell her. I don't know what to grieve. I can't be in a relationship with anyone, she says, so if you have to grieve something, grieve that. She says this strongly. She means it. When we get off the phone I am in fetal position on the bathroom floor, holding my heart, while it literally aches.”
― Women
― Women
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