Alyssa
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More than anything people are supposed to pretend to be happy on the internet so that other people are reminded of how unhappy they themselves are by comparison.
“For knowing too much, rather than too little. For a woman, neither was an acceptable way to be.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“Sometimes the devil you know is bad enough to chance the one you don’t.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“How many times in her life has she said yes to a boy or a man just because it was the easiest thing to do? How many times has she let a man take what he wanted, instead of taking something for herself?”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“Her voice, it seemed, had been continuously decrescendoing since birth, so that by age twelve, she could scarcely be heard.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“It’s taken all my life to learn protection is the promise you can’t make. It sounds absolute, and you mean it and believe it, but that vow is provisional and makeshift and no god ever lived who could keep it half the time.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
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