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Cynthia Edge
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We live in a world that expects fat people to voluntarily torture themselves.
“Love changes us. It strengthens us, and dents us, and lifts us, and guides us. If we sleep, if we suffer the side effect, if we're no longer shaped by the people we love... who are we?”
― The Poppy Fields
― The Poppy Fields
“The enormity of my love for these tender, fleshly beings was twinned with a potential for loss so unimaginably deep and powerful that it was like a black hole lurking just outside our window.”
― Wreck
― Wreck
“You can’t free yourself of pain by causing pain. If you don’t take measures to control yourself, all you’ll do is cause pain. There’s no relief in destruction. I think you know that.”
― Such Sharp Teeth
― Such Sharp Teeth
“I'm an undammable river of mother love. I'm a torch-brandishing one-woman mob, and I will go after anyone who casts doubt upon the rightness of my child. Even if that person is me.”
― Wreck
― Wreck
“Lately she had been having this strange experience of waking up in the middle of the night not knowing who she was—that was the only way to describe it. The feeling wasn’t figurative, but literal: when she looked around her bedroom in Tribeca, she didn’t recognize her life. How had she become so old, so young? It was as if she had taken over the body of another character—one who was a wife and a mother—and was now expected to play its part. But recently the lines of dialogue had diminished, and what she had been left with was a set of camera angles and stage directions and a script that she couldn’t remember ever having been given.”
― So Old, So Young
― So Old, So Young
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Chick-lit, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Memoir, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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