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And how do I explain to my mother that the kids I am going to school with are so rich, so excruciatingly polished, that they look at me like I’m a coyote who has wandered in from upstate.
“She drinks with the abandon of someone who has long denied her own thirst.”
― Spectacular Things
― Spectacular Things
“Because fighting about the past is easier than considering the future.”
― Spectacular Things
― Spectacular Things
“Sometimes I miss my mother. Or maybe I miss the mother I didn't have. There is a void where a certain love should be, a different type of abyss. What rushes in to fill the space? Anxiety, doubt, a very specific melancholy. A steel wall has been built around the red of my heart when it comes to my mother. All of that red of me is trapped inside of metal, caught, kept.”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“They said that, after the explosion, I was wandering around in a daze, gushing like Old Faithful, and trying to pick up pieces of my body with a hand that wasn’t there anymore.”
― The Hour I First Believed
― The Hour I First Believed
“They will both recall this moment in slow motion, the severing of their lives into before & after, mothered and orphaned.”
― Spectacular Things
― Spectacular Things
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