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“every dream I have about kissing you
ends with blood on my hands.”
― Trista Mateer, [redacted]

tags: dream, love, poetry

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“I wrote my own story
And still said all the wrong things.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

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“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what they do is to stir up, to lance the reader.”
― Edna O'Brien

tags: edna-o-brien, literary-quotes, on-writing, writing-advice

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“I think of this life, of my life, of the things I built and planted. I have been lucky to know such richness. But I also think of how my husband taught me something else, something so wrong I am stunned that I ever believed it: that in the face of the world's end love should shrink. (p.290)”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

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“Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me, but I realized it for the first time only in that situation. I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition. I had wanted to become something—here was the point—only because I was afraid that Lila would become someone and I would stay behind. My becoming was a becoming in her wake. I had to start again to become, but for myself, as an adult, outside of her.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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