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I could tell he was somewhere else. I even asked him, twice, if something was the matter. And he said no. But I knew something was. The air doesn’t get thicker for no reason.
“she throws herself into her safest refuge: herself; this moist trace on her cheeks, this burning in her eyes, are the tangible presence of her suffering soul; gentle on one's skin, barely salty on one's tongue, tears are also a tender and bitter caress; the face burns under a stream of mild water; tears are both complaint and consolation, fever and soothing coolness. They are also a supreme alibi; sudden as a storm, coming out in fits, a cyclone, shower, deluge, they metamorphose the woman into a complaining fountain, a stormy sky; her eyes can no longer see, mist blurs them: they are no longer even a gaze, they melt in rain; blinded, the woman returns to the passivity of natural things. She must be vanquished: she is lost in her defeat; she sinks, she drowns, she escapes man who contemplates her, powerless as if before a cataract. He judges this way of behaving as unfair: but she thinks that the battle has been unfair from the beginning because no effective weapon has been put into her hands.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“You know, most of this feminism business was nothing more than white American women telling non-white women what to do and how to do it, with this patronizing if-you-become-just-like-me-you’ll-be-free bullshit,”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
“The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far in it.”
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“When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, it was an accident, but when she stepped through the looking glass, it was of her own free will, and a braver deed by far.”
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― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“Love survives in a bubble. It diffuses outer reality and reflects only what the heart wants to see.”
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― Teatime for the Firefly
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