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"She wanted to be emotionally uninvested in ____'s journey, but in so many ways, their journeys were inextricable. They'd both been shaped by the same man, and now they were both trying to figure out how to shape themselves."

"She was starting to think that if they both looked the past unflinchingly in the eye, they might be able to cobble together some kind of relationship in the future. She wasn't sure she wanted that yet, but she wasn't sure she didn’t."

"As day turned into dusk, she settled into the corners of herself she hadn't used in so long she'd assumed the locks rusted shut."

"Being back, she realized she'd forgotten what it felt like to have someone who had been with you for all of your past, who understood who you'd been at every point of your life."

"It was a lot of feelings to try to have at once, for someone not used to having any."

"It was a city full of people trying to tie their roots to their futures. Miriam, who had severed nearly all her roots and was making her future up as she went, was drawn to that."

Engaging as heck already. Pretty good narrator!

"My body has walked me through grief time + time again. She has felt unsafe + she has been unsafe. Every day, I ask her to walk thru a patriarchal, white supremacist, capitalist world + defy ir. I ask her to remain human, + in doing so, I have discovered she's not a heartless machine, with parts easily replaced.
I am human. And I require assistance to stay alive."

"I'm not broken, I've realized; I'm just high maintenance. This is why the term maintenance meds is so helpful for me. My body simply requires more than it used to in order to get through each day. She's been through a lot."