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She always said it like a scold, and I could never hear it as anything else. Not once did it sound like a warm breeze, or an open door—always, it was clipped and fierce as if warning me against another wrong step. I don’t know how the name sounds to others who share it; hopefully they wear it well. On me it was a penance, and growing up, I was always thinking of how to rid myself of it.

“-what is so wrong with being a bitch? It is the closest a girl can be to a wolf.”

“One day, I will be a rose. And I will plant myself somewhere so beautiful that I will never want to leave.”

“Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

Everything hung in suspended animation. She felt as if she were drifting, her whole existence reduced to a single score

“Human beings deny other human beings’ humanity and call that power”

“Sometimes I wish I could shrink into to someone more convenient.”

“Sometimes I wish I could shrink into to someone more convenient.”

“We’re all Guinea pigs in the laboratory of God… Humanity is just a work in progress.” - Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

“It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.” -Eric Hoffner, The Passionate State of Mind