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“Silverman’s aperture does not seem wide enough to include an enjoyment that doesn’t derive from filling a void, or love that is not merely balm for a wound. So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself.”

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being handed an index card and being told to squeeze a Homeric epithet onto it

a kentucky of mothers

What exactly is lost to us when words are wasted? Can it be that words comprise one of the few economies left on earth in which plentitude—surfeit, even—comes at no cost?

Because I do not yet understand the relationship between writing and happiness, or writing and holding.

cruelty of the argo

Ok i know my last update was at 25% and now im updating at 26% but i am going on break at work and i rlly want it to be updated correctly Ok thank you

young people are thoughtless as a rule

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Now. if i speak

“Allison, Jemima, Zosia—we will always be the girls, but now—are we the ladies?”

“a cramped gallery kitchen where, like Carrie Bradshaw, I filled the oven with shoes.”

am i a pervert? well yes!

You don’t like me anymore? I thought. But you made me.

Our whole culture values the potential of life more than the existence of it, and women as vessels for that life more than as sentient beings.

Never mistake maintenance for care, attention for love, or even love for empathy.

“What are you so fucking guilty about?” my father once asked. “Since you were five, you’ve been walking around like you killed a man in Reno just to watch him die.”

That’s the crux of it: Through it all, I always wanted to be a good girl.

As Nora said: Everything is copy.