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“I took a step toward her. 'It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right,' I said.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“In front of my mother and my sisters, I pretend love is cheap and vulgar. I act like it’s a sin–I pretend that love is for women on a dark path. But at night I dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb. I dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water.”
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“Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive.”
― Bless Me, Ultima
― Bless Me, Ultima
“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
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“He is not a bad man, and that, I realize suddenly, is the root of my hurt.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
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