“I rigged an election trying to be Golden. I spent sixteen years with my head in a toilet trying to be light. I drank myself numb for a decade, trying to be pleasant. I’ve giggled at and slept with assholes, trying to be touchable. I’ve held my tongue so hard I tasted blood, trying to be gentle. I’ve spent thousands on potions and poisons, trying to be youthful. I have denied myself for decades, trying to be pure.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“That is also why all a political candidate must do to earn evangelical allegiance is claim to be antiabortion and antigay—even if the candidate is a man who hates and abuses women, who stockpiles money and rejects immigrants, who incites racism and bigotry, who lives in every way antithetical to Jesus’s teachings.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“Why do they have contempt for those not in their circle? Why can’t they see that being of the people rather than ruling over them is the only way that they themselves will survive?”
― The House at the End of the World
― The House at the End of the World
“Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier.”
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“And this was where the hypocrisy and rigidity shook hands and came out of their respective corners ready to do battle.”
― The Other New Girl: A Novel
― The Other New Girl: A Novel
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