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I am a professional troublemaker. What is a professional troublemaker, you ask? A professional troublemaker is not the person who brings chaos into the midst of any room they are in. That person is a troll. A professional troublemaker is
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“What kind of fear is credible? There are so many kinds of fear.”
― Of Women and Salt
― Of Women and Salt
“The conversation, once everyone sat for dinner, was painstaking, fifteen people desperately waiting their turn to insert an opinion, nobody concerned with what anybody else thought about anything. Perhaps every conversation played out like this, and it was only now, aware of every move, every reaction, that Carmen realized it was a miracle human beings learned anything about each other at all.”
― Of Women and Salt
― Of Women and Salt
“She mistook happiness for what it was - how we build lives out of the strings we hold. But we should have known deep down that she was lying to herself. She had said I knew the secret, what was really important in life, what made a person happy. If that was true, it didn't make sense when she went back home and left all that 'happiness' behind.”
― Of Women and Salt: A Novel
― Of Women and Salt: A Novel
“She knew a woman could learn to resent this post, but she would instead find a hundred books to read”
― Of Women and Salt
― Of Women and Salt
“It was minor abuse. He’d touched Jeanette twice only, over her clothes. Just her breasts, Jeanette had said. That minor and abuse could even fit in the same sentence seemed preposterous. There was no minor in abuse, there was no Thank God, it could have been worse. Sexual abuse was no car accident.”
― Of Women and Salt
― Of Women and Salt
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