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The defining feature of a tragedy, she said then, is that we already know how it will end. We know from the outset that Oedipus has killed his father, slept with his mother, and that eventually he’ll go blind. And yet, for some reason, we
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“a girl comes of age against the knife, Betty, but the woman she becomes must decide if the blade will cut deep enough to rip her apart or if she will find the strength to leap with her arms out and dare herself to fly the world that seems to break like glass around her.”
― Betty
― Betty
“I wasn’t trying to be a victim until the world taught me how powerful victims are.”
― Victim
― Victim
“Maybe life begins the moment we know we don’t have one.”
― The Anomaly
― The Anomaly
“From there, according to the map, a road should have taken her into the mountains, but the asphalt soon gave way to dirt, dead-ending at a long driveway flanked by those twin heralds of American hospitality, Private Property and Beware of Dog.”
― North Woods
― North Woods
“No one can see my neuroses except me. The way I see myself is not how other people see me. Everything is okay. I belong here.”
― My Husband
― My Husband
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