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“He would have loved me unquestioningly and stubbornly forever. And I don’t know if I want to be loved like that.”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material

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“The glorious imprecision of language, the impossible endeavour of saying what you mean to another. She sees, with benevolent distance, how hopeless and winsome it is to be in this skin. How human it is to attempt a futile expression of your innermost secrets to another by vibrating strings in your throat to make an avalanche of sentences. To laugh, to sing, to cry out loud. How we all wish so badly to be heard.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake

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“Pity is a kindness,' Keiko says, her voice absolute. 'Each of us deserves pity, but no one in this forsaken land has the compassion to give us this kindnes. So we are stuck here in this humiliation, tortured day after day. There is nothing left for us but to bestow what little kindness we have onto one another.”
― Mary Lynn Bracht, White Chrysanthemum

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“Su is so used to the privacy of her feelings she is unsure about sharing them, even with her sister. Having someone bear witness to your pain is risky: it takes the experience out of your hands, makes things real in a way you cannot unmake. Alone, you're free to rearrange the pieces till they sit right in your head.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake

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“You can’t trauma-proof life, and you can’t hurt-proof your relationships. You have to accept you will cause harm to yourself and others. But you can also fuck up, really badly, and not learn anything from it except that you fucked up. It’s the same with oppression. You don’t gain any special knowledge from being marginalized. But you do gain something from stepping outside your hurt and examining the scaffolding of your oppression.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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