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“Rock ’n’ roll is a terrible babysitter, baby.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“Our new budget now, with no wriggle room for anything extra—not a pot of jam, or a new pair of shoes. We cannot do anything other than stay very still. We are on 11 percent less of was-never-enough-in-the-first-place.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“You are midwife to yourself, and will give birth to yourself, over and over, in dark rooms, alone.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“I’m learning a whole new thing: that sometimes, love isn’t observable or noisy or tangible. That sometimes, love is anonymous. Sometimes, love is silent. Sometimes, love just stands there when you’re calling it a cunt, biting its tongue and waiting.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“I saw what an achievement it was—the will of a small, countable number of men and women who wrote, and thought, and marched, and sang. If you’d killed the right two hundred people, this future would never have come at all. Perhaps this future had come so late because, previously, they had killed the right two hundred people—over and over, through history.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
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