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‘I once asked him why he was so interested—his response: ‘But they are the ones interested in us—They are always around.’ Some women—because they have suffered themselves, they want every other woman to suffer even more—Mdm. Flaubert only has eyes for my errors—I’m not scared of the ghosts—it is the living that I find—uneasy. Then he said, ‘Your grandma’s—there she can see—She knows where I dropped the—butterfly.’

‘Layer upon layer of history—the living—& the ghosts—realms separate—inevitably bleed into each other. The delicate fragrance of gardenias—Sounds, too, find ways of crossing borders—witches, vampires, changelings—she impersonates them—in various dialects—connected, even for a fleeting moment, to another life—Luck is not we receive—but what we are spared—Our good fortune is—another name for someone else’s misfortune.’

i’m so excited about this and thankful that someone at penguin thought of me and sent me this arc! 😍

‘—the Seine—artery named after—Sequana—dissolving its own memories, forever at war w/ itself. Beyond—the tulip tree rustles its leaves—whispering in a language he cannot comprehend but would one day like to learn—He accepted her for who she is, not for who he wants her to be. But now, he must be the one ending her—I, Emma Bovary, have been—I yearned for something more. I'm not trying to trivialise my transgressions—’