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Boredom, she was told—and now believes—is a privilege. If she could go back in time, she would, just to kick herself. A pinch in the rib. Without thinking, she’d trip herself to stop her restless wandering, to keep her from boarding that
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“Wasn't this what siblings, even younger ones, were for? Someone else to see the monster in the closet. The blood on the bed.”
― Listen to Your Sister
― Listen to Your Sister
“I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be born to die.”
― Luster
― Luster
“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“I’ve made my own hunger into a practice, made everyone who passes through my life subject to a close and inappropriate reading that occasionally finds its way, often insufficiently, into paint. And when I am alone with myself, this is what I am waiting for someone to do to me, with merciless, deliberate hands, to put me down onto the canvas so that when I’m gone, there will be a record, proof that I was here.”
― Luster
― Luster
“I’m an open book,” I say, thinking of all the men who have found it illegible. I made mistakes with these men. I dove for their legs as they tried to leave my house. I chased them down the hall with a bottle of Listerine, saying, I can be a beach read, I can get rid of all these clauses, please, I’ll just revise.”
― Luster
― Luster
Jayanne’s 2025 Year in Books
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1,483 books
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65 friends
56 books
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953 books
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511 books
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678 friends
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