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“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Don't we touch each other just to prove we're still here?”
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
“As a woman, as a fat woman, I am not supposed to take up space. And yet, as a feminist, I am encouraged to believe I can take up space. I live in a contradictory space where I should try to take up space but not too much of it, and not in the wrong way, where the wrong way is any way where my body is concerned.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“Most people, the minute they meet you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people – people they could get rid of.... Everyone is trying to reassure themselves: I'm not going to get kicked off the boat, they are. They're always separating people into two groups, allies and dispensable people... The number of people who want to understand what you're like instead of trying to figure out whether you get to stay on the boat - it's really limited.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“If I've thought of my mother as callous, and many times I have, then it is important to remember what a callus is: the hardened tissue that forms over a wound.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
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