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But it seems to me more likely that it was precisely because she was beautiful and strong, and we were not, that Ruth and the rest of us had done this to her. To make a sort of judgment on that beauty, on what it meant and didn’t mean to
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“We’d created meaning where there was none, but, I don’t know, isn’t that art? Or at least I think it’s the kind of art that I like, where the obsession of one person envelops other people, transforms them.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
“She showed it to Hobart, who also loved it, and it made me feel, for the first time, that maybe it was dumb to be embarrassed about weird things if you were really good at them. Or not good. If they made vou happy.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
“And even then, sixteen years old, I knew that I would hate every person in my life who loved me, who took care of me, who helped me find a way to whatever life I would have, because I could never tell them who I was, what I’d done.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
“I wondered how anyone found each other in a place where it was so easy to become lost.”
― A Snake Falls to Earth
― A Snake Falls to Earth
“Everything here is true, but it might not be entirely factual.”
― Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
― Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
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