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“When I first pulled it up into my boat, I was afraid. And then I was not, because I knew that it was my catch. My thing. I would be able to keep it forever and admire it. I thought about butchering it and eating it, so it could be within me forever. I thought about making its bones into little trinkets. Then I did not think that any more – like a door had slammed closed on the thought. Instead, I thought the creature itself could be my slippery trinket, living and breathing and in my arms.”
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“...from the disturbing knowledge that comes from distinguishing in others the parts of yourself that you most hate, I just know...”
― Stag Dance
― Stag Dance
“There is nothing in this world so pathetic, so moronic, so meaningless as dieting.”
― Butter
― Butter
“Even if I end up dying alone, I don't think I'll resent people for it. I won't sit around waiting for other people. I'll use my own money to buy ingredients, make the food I want to eat, eat it how I like, and then die.”
― Butter
― Butter
“Yet I couldn't rid myself of the sense that if I stopped moving, the merry-go-round called our family would simply cease to rotate. If I stopped moving, then I wouldn't be loved. And if I was the one moving, then I had no proof that I was loved. What did it mean to be loved, in any case? Was it to be needed? Why, then, when I was helping people in this way, did I feel hollow and miserable?”
― Butter
― Butter
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