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“Shōko was releasing a creation into the world, which bore her own name. It stood to reason that she would be consumed, feel worn down, find it hard—it stood to reason that sometimes she would feel so ashamed and so lonely she wanted to die. That was what going out to work in society meant!”

"...a man wouldn't have understood, and the women felt exactly the same way as I did. And so we preferred to chat about clothes, friends and the theater and laugh, keeping our secret, consuming worry in our eyes. Each of us knew about it, and that's why we never discussed it. That was the price we paid for our ability to love."

"'People completely ignorant of all the privileges they'd had since birth, just ignorant period, because they were really dumb, they hadn't read a single book in their lives besides the fucking biography of Steve Jobs or some shit like Who Moved My Cheese?'"

Hieronymus Bosch, The Smiths, and my own experience with the worst boss I ever had making me read Who Moved My Cheese?—feeling too seen right now.

“She once asked where I pictured myself in ten years and I said reading a book with a dog in my lap.”

Same, Thiago.

“Explaining away the “bad father” and redirecting us toward the “good enough father” is so often one of a mother’s covert responsibilities.”

"Valerie had heard of these women who go around drugging men for radical sex. She'd thought it was just an urban legend, like the chupacabra or enduring contentment."