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“She had to know what I’d only just now discovered: that peace could only exist in this family when we lied about everything, at least to each other.”
― Frying Plantain
― Frying Plantain
“Being careful with my words and measuring my tone, speaking at all, is harder.”
― Frying Plantain
― Frying Plantain
“Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“It had taken three different sleepovers at three different houses for me to realize that not all families worked this way.”
― Frying Plantain
― Frying Plantain
“As a kid I’d made the mistake of offering up overly complicated explanations, thinking that the more detailed I was, the more her doubt would ebb. Those explanations usually ended up revealing some kind of secret I wasn’t even aware I was keeping from her. Now I knew to say as little as possible.”
― Frying Plantain
― Frying Plantain
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