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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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Sep 23, 2025 07:29PM

“No one knows what goes on in a marriage except the people in it, the truism goes. I have often thought that the sentence could stand to be shortened to: No one knows what goes on in a marriage.”
― Haley Mlotek, No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce

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“To be wanted is one thing, and to be left is another. The gravity in either direction is stunning, if you think about it for long enough.”
― Haley Mlotek, No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce

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“history long since eaten by rain and dressed by a verdant moss so vigorous as to seem a cemetery vegetable.”
― Niall Williams, Time of the Child: A Novel

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