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For men to walk out feeling that the work was about them spoke to their own patriarchal delusions more than to the actuality of the work itself.
“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
― Wintergirls
― Wintergirls
“The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.”
― Circe
― Circe
“For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“I am not interested in a hermeneutics, or an erotics, or a metaphorics, of my anus. I am interested in ass-fucking. I am interested in the fact that the clitoris, disguised as a discrete button, sweeps over the entire area like a manta ray, impossible to tell where its eight thousand nerves begin and end. I am interested in the fact that the human anus is one of the most innervated parts of the body,”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
Amelia’s 2025 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science fiction, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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