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You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesn’t matter if you’re rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesn’t change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds.

Janey had always been the first in her group to explore whatever frontier presented itself. She had been the first one in her family to hate her family. She had been the first girl in her class to fuck. She had been the first in her class to say No and run away. Now she had cancer.

The local police station contains men who, unlike the people in the market, want nothing to do with the neighbourhood. They’re scared of the dangerous streets, the alleyways, and they’re paid to be scared.

There was a JPEG attached. Should she open it? What the hell would he be sending her? Maybe it was a virus. Sure, Joan, that’s the extent of his evil-doing. He’s going to give you a computer virus.

“She walked away from us both. Can you imagine a woman who would leave her husband and kid to go to Florida to be an actor?”
“To be a whore, you mean,” Grandma Pat would always say. She was smug. She’d warned him.
“Don’t people run away to California to be actors?” Cecile had once asked.
“Don’t be a snob,” her father answered.

I’d also argue we have the national lead on the number of furious and profane upbraidings of those same inanimate objects, because you cannot be conditioned to be nice so consistently and genuinely without also engendering a latent, pervasive rage. This is, as they say, “the dialectic.”

This scene where Corinne is just laying out how horribly guilt she feels and that she had a full pedophile weirdo butler harassing her in addition to her psychosexually obsessed with her dad…….:(

Bart reading Malcolm’s diary and being annoyed it’s mostly Malcolm complaining and not success win business tips is so funny

Jory’s description of his brother as an odd little kid who doesn’t like himself much just made me soooooo sad

Bart is SO funny……he’s told not to lie because God will punish him and he’s like why not everyone else does………..

Why does Rockefeller need more money so badly he kills the life in the waters around Puerto Rico? Why does one person follow his/her whims to the detriment (deep suffering) of someone that person supposedly loves?

To ignore the complex pleasures of a poem like "Obedient Love" is to strip it of the lurid, violent erotics that is its most interesting—albeit disturbing—feature. It is to flatten out its anguished, complex, and perverse transcription of physical and emotional desire, reducing its emotional landscape to merely black and white outlines of sanctionable female feelings.