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Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors.
That's a hell of an evolutionary adaptation
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Did you tell your best friend his crush was a cannibal? Never a rule book when you needed one.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“I want to ask, to scream, why are the women in Nigeria seem to be suffering for everything more than the men?”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I used to think that if I could talk to the spirit world, I'd get some answers. Ha bloody ha. I wish the dead would just come out and say what they mean instead of being so passive-aggressive about the whole thing.”
― Monkey Beach
― Monkey Beach
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