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It occurred to me that I couldn’t go back to crying because I had to pee, which who knew peeing could outrank grief in the brain.
“They notice, as women notice everything, but women are as good at ignoring things as they are at understanding them.”
― Brutes
― Brutes
“and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one.”
― Brutes
― Brutes
“To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time.”
― Brutes
― Brutes
“Brutes! How can you girls be such brutes?” They cried. We cried, too, because we felt they were saying we were wrong. We felt foul and fatherly and frightened of ourselves. We tried to make ourselves small. We were coiled up but we were not broken. And we knew our mothers’ idea of goodness was not measured by morals but by how much noise we made. And we quickly grew tired of trying to be good in their way.”
― Brutes
― Brutes
sky’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at sky’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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22 friends
148 books
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61 books
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6 friends
299 books
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178 books
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6 friends
15 books
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128 books
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6 friends
89 books
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1 friend
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