Elizabeth

“As a woman, as a fat woman, I am not supposed to take up space. And yet, as a feminist, I am encouraged to believe I can take up space. I live in a contradictory space where I should try to take up space but not too much of it, and not in the wrong way, where the wrong way is any way where my body is concerned.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL LAWRENCE IS ON THE PROWL FOR A ROAD CARCASS WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE AS A REPRESENTATIVE PROP BECAUSE NOWHERE IN OUR AUTUMN-THEMED POSTER BOARD DÉCOR IS MORBIDITY OR DECAY SYMBOLIZED.”
― Alissa Nutting, Made for Love

“I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.”
― Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

“We pretend when we want to forget things are dangerous, she thought, though she immediately failed to apply this concept to herself”
― Alissa Nutting, Made for Love