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“No woman is a star. No woman is a god or a tree or a magician. But for a while, in your arms, the universe was the right size, and I knew where I was.”
― Heartwood
― Heartwood
“We are born and grow through childhood in spring. We live those glorious, lively, interesting years of our twenties, thirties, forties in summer. We settle into ourselves in autumn, that cool but not yet cold time, rich and aromatic. And in winter we age (brutally) and die.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“Time feels flimsy as the cardboard swirlies that will hang over Jet's head in the school gym while the bass line reverberates in her chest, and she wraps her skinny limbs around someone who is not me.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“People always talked about having children as an event, as a thing that took place, they forgot that not having children was also something that took place, that is to say it wasn’t a question of absence, a question of lack, it had its own presence in the world, it was its own event.”
― Audition
― Audition
“It was our pain that pulled us together like magnets, that medicinal click of solidarity between two hurting people. But as powerful as pain might be, it was never going to keep us together.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
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