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“Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don’t even know what the experiment is testing.”
― Bewilderment
― Bewilderment
“Nobody’s perfect, she liked to say. But, man, we all fall short so beautifully.”
― Bewilderment
― Bewilderment
“To you, the fairy tale’s a cheesy medium that builds physically unsound worlds that one eventually outgrows, and to me a fairy tale is city planning.”
― I Wished
― I Wished
“Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths.”
― Bewilderment
― Bewilderment
“You could be erased a little so that there was less of you, less confidence, less freedom, or your rights could be eroded, your body invaded so that it was less and less yours, you could be rubbed out altogether, and none of those possibilities seemed particularly remote. All the worst things that happened to other women because they were women could happen to you because you were a woman. Even if you weren’t killed, something in you was, your sense of freedom, equality, confidence”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence
― Recollections of My Nonexistence
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