Renee

“Bianca had the kind of knowledge other girls could sense in her right away—it was as if she had already lived her adult life and had come back to her thirteen-year-old body to tell us about it.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“Elegies are the best love stories because they’re the whole story.”
― Sarah Manguso, Liars

“Tonight I learned why my mother always squealed and shrank away when my father tried to touch her: She was a fortress. And inside that fortress was rage, and in the center of that rage was the pain of the insult of being treated like a stupid maid. My fortress is the same, with smaller hips, surrounded by a corona of migraine.”
― Sarah Manguso, Liars

“I have nothing but fondness and affection for you, I said, halfway out the door.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays