“I found Italy an interesting place to be a young American woman. I rather enjoyed being objectified. I like it when men look at me as if they want to devour me. I find it deeply entertaining. It becomes annoying only when they start talking, as if I’d have any interest in anything that comes out of their mouths.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“He was a reminder, every day I saw him and in every way he touched me, of our shared youth. That golden time when we smoked as if we were immortal, danced as if we were graceful, and fucked as if we would never have another opportunity.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“In life as in writing, you kill your darlings. You kill, anyway, and then you see what you can take with you.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“I imagined her looking at her Xrays, tracing with her elegant crimson nail the great black roses of cancer blooming in her lungs. I suspect she moved home to grant them room to flourish, to nurse them into spectacular arrangement, to turn her body into the fallow ground for her cancer, the last thing she could cultivate like a blue-ribbon expert.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“I see them, the guards, terrifying the vulnerable inmates. They’re bullies, these men living their fantasies of power, as if their squalid teenage dreams cracked open and spilled incarcerated candy at their feet.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
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