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The Resident
“Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness. Pray that one day, you will spin around at the water’s edge, lean over, and be able to count yourself among the lucky.”

The Resident
“And when my fever broke, I pulled my shaking body up to the vanity, glanced into the mirror, and for the first time, saw who I’d been looking for.”

Real Women Have Bodies
“I am always surprised at the poetry with which boys can describe boning.”

“The things she says are disjointed, but familiar; Benson recognizes a quote from “Moby-Dick”, and another from “The Price of Salt”. They put the girl in a foster home, where she continues to express her grief and lamentations through everyone else’s words.”

“In the tangle of branches, baby birds – the gray and pink of half cooked shrimp and with bones like dried spaghetti – scream for their mothers.”

“I am up for a long time listening to his breathing, wondering if perhaps men have ribbons that do not look like ribbons. Maybe we marked in some way, even if it’s impossible to see.”

“As a grown woman, I would have said to my father that there are true things in this world observed only by a single set of eyes. As a girl, I consented to his account of the story, and laughed when he scooped me from the chair to kiss me and send me on my way.”

“gos should have made girls lethal
when he made monsters of men.”
- Elisabeth Hewer

“My body is a haunted
house that I am lost in.
There are no doors but there are knives
and a hundred windows.”
- Jacqui Germain

“In principle, all women should give themselves permission to demand good treatment, but the world made doing so profoundly difficult.”

“ ‘If the economy requires people to consume more resources than the Earth can replenish, just to keep the whole thing from collapsing, isn’t it time for a new economy?’ “

“ ‘We’ve created a system such that we self identify as consumers first before understanding ourselves as ecosystem citizens.’ “

“I lament my own immersion in an economy that grinds what is beautiful and unique into dollars, converts gifts to commodities in a currency that enables us to purchase things we don’t really need while destroying what we do.”
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“ Let’s remember that the “System” is led by individuals, by a relatively small number of people, who have names, with more money than God and certainly less compassion. They sit in boardrooms, deciding to exploit fossil fuels for short term gain while the world burns. They know the science, they know the consequences, but they proceed with ecocidal business as usual and do it anyway.”

“Because I’m a botanist, my knowledge of economics and finance is about the size of the frilly little cup at the tip of a Juneberry that was once part of the flower. It’s called the “calyx” in case you were craving a delicious new word, the way some people crave money.”

“ it can be difficult to get an appointment with the chief constable. They are busy people, their diaries are carefully controlled. Try ringing 999 and asking to speak to a chief constable. See where that gets you.”

“He certainly likes Donna very, very, very much. But how many “likes” turn like into “love”? Four? Five? Bogdan wishes there was a definitive answer. There are six bullets in a gun, you can fit twelve bricks on a hod, there are 13 grams of protein in an egg. But love? Try Googling it. There aren’t any answers, Bogdan has tried.”