“Boy-next-door, Rena knew, always meant white boy next door. When America has one natural blonde family left, its members will be trotted out to play every role that calls for someone all-American, to be interviewed in every time of crisis. They will be exhausted.”
― The Office of Historical Corrections
― The Office of Historical Corrections
“Midwest nice was a steady, polite gaslighting I found sinister, a forced humility that prevented anyone from speaking up when they’d been diminished or disrespected, lest they be labeled an outsider. I was bewildered by the pride the region took in these pathologies.”
― The Office of Historical Corrections
― The Office of Historical Corrections
“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“We're all on our own. Even when you're surrounded by people, or sharing a bed with a loving lover, you're alone.”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
“She thought the insistence on victims without wrongdoers was at the base of the whole American problem, the lie that supported all the others.”
― The Office of Historical Corrections
― The Office of Historical Corrections
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— last activity Jan 21, 2020 12:10PM
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