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“You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you're scared of what it means to do so.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“I know trauma uses silence as a survival mechanism.”
― Black Girl, Call Home
― Black Girl, Call Home
“Could love be giving your own solitude to another? Because that's the ultimate thing you can give of yourself.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“It’s painful, sometimes, to look back on a life and wonder if anything you did could have made any difference. So much is lost; and what’s lost is lost forever. Was it destined to be lost, or could we have saved it?”
― Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
― Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
“I read once that women are more likely than men to cry when they are angry. I know that women cry out of shame. We are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way that it transforms us. We cry to quell what we feel, even when it's trying to tell us something, even when it has every right to exist.”
― My Body
― My Body
Andrea’s 2025 Year in Books
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