“I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women here had always known: We were endangered, but we were dangerous, too; our peril was also our power.”
― Elsewhere
― Elsewhere
“I like knowing that my problems exist within a large and respected tradition of problems. That ever since the beginning of civilization, humans have been very upset.”
― Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
― Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
“We compare our thighs in the reflection of doors and people tell us that’s where our value lies.”
― Saltwater
― Saltwater
“I can't look at everything hard enough,' Lewis whispered into the stars again and again. The combination of words belonged to a character he would never play, but in that moment, he felt that the line had been written for him.”
― Shark Heart
― Shark Heart
“I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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