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“Everyone was supervising her now, it seemed. She had been an expect, an uncontested power; now she had to ask her ten-year-old daughter whether she’d eaten lunch. That winter was long and dark, and I wondered if sometimes Mother was staying in bed even when she didn’t have a migraine.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Long ago she found love but tasted only sand. She hasn't looked for love since, not in words, not in gifts, not in candle-light. But tonight, broken down in the prairies, nothing but the wind swaying the grass — of all places, it is here.”
― A Short Walk Through a Wide World
― A Short Walk Through a Wide World
“Kaye laughs and drinks out of chipped mugs and lets her long green pixie fingers trace patterns on Roiben’s skin. In those moments, with the smell of her in his throat, stronger than all the iron in the world, he feels as raw and trembling as something newly born.”
― The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
― The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
“The insides of my arms are little pursed mouths and the needle in my bag is a snake, rolling and flapping against the sides of my handbag, rattling, making me want to shoot up water just to fake my arms out. And the single fang is iron, making black burns where it touches, but it is a good burn. I need that burn.”
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
“His eyes are wide and black, and God help me but I know that look. I’ve gone hungry too many times not to recognize a starving man when he kneels in the dirt before me. ….He looks at me just long enough for me to think, in desperate italics: Fuck.
Then he closes his eyes very deliberately, and I recognize this, too; this is what it looks like when you swallow all your hunger. When you want what you can’t have, so you bury it like a knife between your ribs.”
― Starling House
Then he closes his eyes very deliberately, and I recognize this, too; this is what it looks like when you swallow all your hunger. When you want what you can’t have, so you bury it like a knife between your ribs.”
― Starling House
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