In a very dangerous world, little girls often felt safe around these bigger, sharper, stronger creatures. In a very dangerous world, little girls found shelter where they could.
“Maybe touching someone is the kindest thing you can do; making a person feel like it's okay to touch them, that they're touchable and not disgusting, is the easiest and best way to make a person feel good in the world.”
― Motherthing
― Motherthing
“I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill.”
― Motherthing
― Motherthing
“Boys are boys and they do what they want. Women want things too sometimes, but mostly they're just warm sensory boards for men to tweak and rub and learn about themselves and the world through.”
― Motherthing
― Motherthing
“What if Mrs. Bondy had been my mother instead? What might I have inherited from her? Good things. Maybe I would have wanted to be like her instead of how it is with my mother — where everything I do is to try to not be like her. Which is basically the same as becoming her in a way, how a shadow of your hand is both your hand and its opposite.”
― Motherthing
― Motherthing
“Love is a shape-shifting monster, she thinks, dizzy and horrified and exhausted and devastated. A werewolf with a bottomless stomach.”
― When the Wolf Comes Home
― When the Wolf Comes Home
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