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Sasha
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“Behind the story I tell is the one I don't.
Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.”
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.”
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
“I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.”
― Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
― Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
“See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could
love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”
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love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”
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“Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.”
― Trash
― Trash
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