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“The lack of color is to show off the dresses. It terrifies our patrons into an existential crisis and then, a purchase. This is what Gizzy tells me, anyway. “The black,” she says, “reminds us that we are mortal and that youth is fleeting. Also, nothing makes pink taffeta pop like a dark void.”
― Her Body and Other Parties
― Her Body and Other Parties
“Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway,”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“If you want to know how poor somebody was growing up, ask them how many windows they had. Don't ask what was in their fridge or in their closet. The number of windows says it all. It says everything. If they had none, or maybe one or two, that's all you need to know.”
― Breasts and Eggs
― Breasts and Eggs
“He is not a bad man, and that, I realize suddenly, is the root of my hurt. He is not a bad man at all. To describe him as evil or wicked or corrupted would do a deep disservice to him. And yet—”
― Her Body and Other Parties
― Her Body and Other Parties
“What is worse: being locked outside of your own mind, or being locked inside of if?
What is worse: writing a Trope or being one? What about being more that one?”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
What is worse: writing a Trope or being one? What about being more that one?”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
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