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Book cover for Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Gorey first blipped across the cultural radar in 1959, when the literary critic Edmund Wilson introduced New Yorker readers to his work. “I find that I cannot remember to have seen a single printed word about the books of Edward Gorey,” ...more
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Patrícia Melo
“It seemed to be raising a piece of me that had been forgotten, something stifled inside me, a piece that on coming free levered up another, and so on and so on, down to the last lost piece, the furthest fallen, as good as buried—the one called "mother.”
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Patrícia Melo
“And the tense little smile that lingered on my face seemed to fire his eyes with a wild gleam, like you see in dogs before they attack. Until that moment, I'd never been hit before.”
Patrícia Melo, The Simple Art of Killing a Woman

Patrícia Melo
“Death has been kind to me, I thought. I haven't been run over by a lorry. I haven't fallen to a stray bullet. I have not been hastened toward death—rather, death has only dreamed of me; it has only knocked at my door. Tap, tap, tap. "I'm thinking of coming for you tonight at nightfall," death had said.”
Patrícia Melo, The Simple Art of Killing a Woman

Patrícia Melo
“There's nothing easier than learning to hate women. There is no shortage of teachers. Fathers teach it, the state teaches it, the legal system teaches it, the market teaches it, and culture, and propaganda.”
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