Status Updates From Sweetbitter Song

This is so Janie by Ethel Cain I’m actually sick to my stomach

odysseus- “as soon as i get back from war i will free you”

girl!! ur ass is gonna be a slave for twenty more years !!!!! 🫪

“I tried to think of something to say… something comforting or perhaps even a joke, to ease the tension clenched around her body - but, then I thought of all the times grief had visited me, and how it’s hideous face is not one that could be chased away with something as useless as words. So, I chose to remain quiet, hoping Penelope might find some comfort in me sharing the weight of her silence.”