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“Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater” is a word tossed around with insouciance as if this was a real thing that did harm. Meanwhile we have no real word for men who kill women. Is the word just “men”?”
― Sex Object: A Memoir
― Sex Object: A Memoir
“I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“Neal didn't take Georgie's breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay--that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.”
― Landline
― Landline
“It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.”
― Keeping The Moon
― Keeping The Moon
“When she tells people she might move to the country, they say, But aren’t you afraid you’re going to get lonely? Get?”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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