Melissa > Recent Status Updates

I’m enjoying the inclusiveness of this (despite the anti trans comments in the reviews)

‘Before we had the word for brick, we had the word for stone, and with these we built, and built ourselves, our language, and never mind what was enjoyed along the way. We built through invasion and war, theft and murder, plague and sacking of empires, until our cities were graveyards, and our mouths were graveyards, and our speech is the speech of the dead.’

‘She ponders the prospect that decadent unhappiness might, in its way, be worse than genuine, legitimate despair.
Which is, as she knows, a decadent question to pose at all.’

Excellent already

‘If you want a cat to show himself, you can’t pay too much attention’

Onto volume 3 and 1812!

‘… you were blind to it because society offers you that blindfold, that thick cloth of entitlement, patriarchy, at birth’