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“To them, pain was a country they had heard of, maybe watched a show about on TV, but one whose stamp had not yet been made in their passports.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“She’s never where she is,’ I said. ‘She’s only inside her head.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“love is temperamental. tiring. it makes demands. love uses you. changes its mind.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“She's never where she is,' I said. 'She's only inside her head.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have to take jobs like this. She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. I felt my guilt like a brand.... I had seen girls clamor for new clothes and complain about what their mothers made for dinner. I was always mortified. Didn't they know they were tying their mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
Carmen’s 2025 Year in Books
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