“Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“Reading is a bit like hallucinating.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
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“All short stories long.”
― The First Person and Other Stories
― The First Person and Other Stories
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