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“Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

tags: fiction, narrative, point-of-view, setting, technique, writing

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“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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“All my life I have been stumbling through moments, desperate to reach the next, without ever really finishing the moment I was currently in.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Watering the Soul

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“Not every decision a woman makes is some grand indictment on other women's lives.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

tags: feminism, hyper-individualism

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“In this way, the Dream House was a haunted house. You were the sudden, inadvertent occupant of a place where bad things had happened. And then it occurs to you one day, standing in the living room, that you are this house's ghost: you are the one wandering from room to room with no purpose, gaping at the moving boxes that are never unpacked, never certain what you're supposed to do. After all, you don't need to die to leave a mark of psychic pain. If anyone is living in the Dream House now, he or she might be seeing the echo of you.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

tags: carmen-maria-machado, ghost, ghostly, in-the-dream-house, living-dead, pain

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