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“I think we are going insane,” said Luis. “From not being around people. We are starting to go inside ourselves, and play around inside of our own mental illness. That doesn’t make any sense.”
“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”
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“Everyone was addicted to saying you went into a cocoon to grow wings and emerge as a beautiful miracle. But what no one ever mentioned was how the caterpillar’s body actually broke down inside the cocoon, turning to mush before its reconstruction. Sometimes the hardest part about your twenties was knowing what stage you were in: if you had been mush, were currently mushing down, or had mush yet ahead of you.”
― Mood Swings: A Novel
― Mood Swings: A Novel
“I felt angry at first, because my husband kept texting, concerned, and his concern felt like judgment (it wasn’t), an accusation that I’d done something wrong (how I interpret most things).”
― Death Valley
― Death Valley
“No, she would never have fucked Mr. Burns, not even on a dare.”
― Mood Swings: A Novel
― Mood Swings: A Novel
“she had been afraid for so long she wasn’t sure what was underneath. The U.S. government and Central Intelligence Agency, men, getting a job, never getting a job, Mom dying, dying before Mom (having to watch her face while I do it, having her make it all about her), food shortages, income inequality, getting fat, the internet, French people.”
― Mood Swings: A Novel
― Mood Swings: A Novel
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