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“Vultures are difficult to charm unless you’re off somewhere rotting in the noonday sun. Casually rotting…a glib cadaver.”
― The Princess Diarist
― The Princess Diarist
“Loving yourself is not antithetical to health, it is intrinsic to health. You can't take good care of a thing you hate.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“Movies were meant to stay on the screen, flat and large and colorful, gathering you up into their sweep of story, carrying you rollicking along to the end, then releasing you back into your unchanged life. But this movie misbehaved. It leaked out of the theater, poured off the screen, affected a lot of people so deeply that they required endless talismans and artifacts to stay connected to it.”
― The Princess Diarist
― The Princess Diarist
“It was one movie. It wasn’t supposed to do what it did—nothing was supposed to do that. Nothing ever had. Movies were meant to stay on the screen, flat and large and colorful, gathering you up into their sweep of story, carrying you rollicking along to the end, then releasing you back into your unchanged life. But this movie misbehaved. It leaked out of the theater, poured off the screen, affected a lot of people so deeply that they required endless talismans and artifacts to stay connected to it. Had”
― The Princess Diarist
― The Princess Diarist
“Denying people access to value is an incredibly insidious form of emotional violence, one that our culture wields aggressively and liberally to keep marginalized groups small and quiet.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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