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"Just started it.. two thoughts:
(1) Ever wondered where Stephen King comes up with his ideas (and what he thinks about his bricks of a novel)? Read the intro.
(2) For an author who has the tendency to write thousand-page-long books, he sure is talented to grip you quickly into a short story. Very excited for reading them all!" — Jan 26, 2021 10:06AM
"Just started it.. two thoughts:
(1) Ever wondered where Stephen King comes up with his ideas (and what he thinks about his bricks of a novel)? Read the intro.
(2) For an author who has the tendency to write thousand-page-long books, he sure is talented to grip you quickly into a short story. Very excited for reading them all!" — Jan 26, 2021 10:06AM
That was the first time I realized that weight loss, thinness really, was social currency.
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“Olive,” Dr. Aslan interrupted her with a stern tone. “What do I always tell you?” “Um . . . ‘Don’t misplace the multichannel pipette’?” “The other thing.” She sighed. “ ‘Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.’ ”
― The Love Hypothesis
― The Love Hypothesis
“The recipe also called for capers but I hate them, so slimy and ugly,”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“I was broken and then I broke some more, and I am not yet healed but I have started believing I will be.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)”
― Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
― Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“I buried the girl I had been because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. She is still small and scared and ashamed, and perhaps I am writing my way back to her, trying to tell her everything she needs to hear.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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