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fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.
“...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life.”
― Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
― Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
“It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that means I don't have to."”
― Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
― Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
“Loretta said that, a couple months ago, Cindy asked her what assassination meant. She told her the truth, of course—that an assassination is when someone kills you to make a point. Which was correct enough, Stella supposed, but only if you were an important man. Important men became martyrs, unimportant ones victims. The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to make the point that they were unimportant—that they were not even men—and the world continued on.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“Things are needy. They take up space. They want attention, and they will drive you mad if you let them.”
― The Book of Form and Emptiness
― The Book of Form and Emptiness
“She hadn't realized how long it takes to become somebody else, or how lonely it can be living in a world not meant for you.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
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