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Jamieanna
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“began to intuit dimly why people drank when they went dancing, and it occurred to me that maybe the reason preschool had felt the way it had was that one had had to go through the whole thing sober.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“I began to realize how this fire department was a means of reentry, of rediscovering the place I had left a decade before, of recapturing my sense of place one tragedy at a time.”
― Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
― Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“You want to be a hero bad enough, you make your own disasters.”
― Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
― Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
“I HOLD
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
―
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
―
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