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“Mr. Higgins, our bald principal (breezily referred to into the Vomit as Old Cue Ball) told me that Miss Margitan (known affectionately to Lisbonians everywhere as Maggot) had been very hurt and very upset by what I had written.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Experts believe that the children of affluent suffer twice as much depression as the kids in the South Bronx or East New York. The findings are robust.These affluent kids are like hothouse flowers, who are propped up by their parents and support staff but who know that they can't measure up.”
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“Anita comforted me, utterly confused by my wailing. 'Well, what made you think you were in an exclusive relationship?' 'Because Anita, we just were! I was living there in his apartment!' Silence. 'Living with him, or just staying there in the weekends when you came home from school?' 'Anita, I've been with him for years now!' 'Viola, if there was no conversation with him about being exclusive in the relationship, then you weren't. I'm sorry. You just thought you were because, what, you love him?' Anita was very matter-of-fact.”
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“As babies, we are trapped in a strange, alien world, unable to see properly, constantly surprised at our bodies, alarmed by hunger and wind, and bowel movements, overwhelmed by our feelings. We are quite literally under attack. We need our mother to soothe out distress and make sense of the experience. As she does so, we slowly learn how to manage our physical and emotional states on her own. But our ability to contain ourselves directly depends on our mother's ability to contain us - if she never experienced containment by her own mother, how could she teach us what she does not know? Someone who has never learned to contain themselves is plagued by anxious feelings for the rest of their life.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“When heroin was doing the most damage to communities of color, the American response was aggressive criminalization. It is not exactly a cutting edge analysis to point out that the war on drugs disproportionately affected black men. And now heroin has, mediated by pharmaceutical opioids, made its way into every nook and cranny of the United States, indiscriminately, killing white and non-white folks like, we're screaming alarm. Our response is outrage at any perpetrator we can find (pharma, for instance) and sympathy, for those caught up in the grips of addiction. Whereas we jumped at the chance to throw black men in jail for possessing small amounts of drugs or drug paraphernalia, now we have books like this one, discussing the need to get people, clean needles, a safe space to inject, and treatment when they're ready. It would take serious, mental, gymnastics to make one believe that this has nothing to do with it, especially in a country riddled with a history of racism.”
― In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
― In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
Anusha’s 2024 Year in Books
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