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“Pregnancy made her feel too much like an animal. It was embarrassing to be so publicly colonized.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“What if alzheimer's isn't just a slow death? What if it's another dimension entirely? An ascension, even. We humans are so fixated on our minds that we see their loss as a tragedy, but what if it's a gift? Maybe the erosion of memory clears space for something truer. Maybe the intelect gets in the way of the heart, until little by little it doesn't. How freeing, I think.”
― Before I Forget
― Before I Forget
“There was no one in the world that was ever as critical or could make me feel as hideous as my mother, but there was no one, not even Peter, who ever made me feel as beautiful.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“In fact, she was both my first and second words: Umma, then Mom. I called to her in two languages. Even then I must have known that no one would ever love me as much as she would.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
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