“We stayed at a cheap hotel that had a view out the window more beautiful than anything I’d ever seen. The water was wickedly blue. A cliff of dark rock jutted out of the sea. I wanted to cry because I was sure I would never get to be in such a place again.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friend calls it.”
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― Dept. of Speculation
“Anger looked like fireworks. Love was an indistinct blur.”
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― Dept. of Speculation
“I tried to figure out if I felt calmer with a blanket over my head. No I did not was the answer.”
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― Dept. of Speculation
“The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. A home has a perimeter. But sometimes our perimeter was breached by neighbors, by Girl Scouts, by Jehovah’s Witnesses. I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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