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Jamieanna
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As Jain describes it, silence is no longer the greatest obstacle to finding a cure for breast cancer: “cancer’s everywhereness drops into a sludge of nowhereness.”
“Read them out loud, and take it slow. When you hit a comma, stop and chew. When you hit a period, swallow. Don't try to eat any circled words.”
― Bluefish
― Bluefish
“Why do you look like that? You should be happy. A lot of things can happen in an airplane, at night, thirty thousand feet above the ocean.”
― 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
“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“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
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