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“The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“All of this fantasy is an act of supreme optimism, or, if you’re feeling less charitable, arrogance.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“I don’t know then that one day I won’t be seventeen. I don’t know that youth doesn’t last, that it’s only a moment, and then it disappears and by the time you finally realize it, it’s too late.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“The theme of entitlement to space that emerges in many of my recollections of men, and in my own masculine development, is colonial code for claiming someone else’s space. Whether it’s through an emphasis on being large and muscular, or asserting power by an extended or intimidating stride on sidewalks, being loud in bars, manspreading on public transit, or enacting harm or violence on others, taking up space is a form of misogyny because so often the space that men try to seize and dominate belongs to women and gender-nonconforming people.”
― Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men.