“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“Everyone—all my patients—think they’re supposed to play it cool about these changes”—now she was checking my moles—“but ‘freaking out’ actually plays an important role in transitions. Picture how the vaginal canal squeezes the water out of a baby’s lungs—it’s the shock of this squeezing and the sudden cold air that makes the baby cry out and take their first breath!” She inhaled so I inhaled, too. “The trauma itself prepares them for the next phase, life on Earth.” The next phase. Right. Now that I wasn’t crying out about the cliff (the slide, the stairs, whatever) I could wonder about what came after.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
“I dreamed of healing Isora's sadness, I wanted to be her dog and I wanted her to be my saint with scraped knees.”
― Panza de burro
― Panza de burro
“i liked isora's insides even though i couldn't see them”
― Dogs of Summer: A Novel
― Dogs of Summer: A Novel
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