“The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.”
― Bag of Bones
― Bag of Bones
“Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“A crucial element of the real self is its unconditional acceptance of itself.”
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“The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries.”
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Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
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