My whole family sort of freezes; perhaps because we’re British and we only ever talk around our feelings?
“There are bars with women wearing shirts with stiff necks and ties and they are terribly proud to be perverts, as if that weren't something nobody can do anything about.”
― The Artificial Silk Girl
― The Artificial Silk Girl
“And I know for a fact that those who "always have to tell the truth" are definitely lying (63)”
― The Artificial Silk Girl
― The Artificial Silk Girl
“Runaway Queer Kids Become Victims of Remote Cottage Chainsaw Killer, Surprising Absolutely No One.’ ‘I’m not queer,’ Ida said. ‘Sorry.’ ‘Then chances are you’ll be the only one left alive.”
― All the Bad Apples
― All the Bad Apples
“Some love ignite like forest fires, burn down entire towns before anybody’s noticed.”
― All the Bad Apples
― All the Bad Apples
“They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.”
― The Artificial Silk Girl
― The Artificial Silk Girl
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