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so much to process and unpack. . . When I finish this book I will add all my favourite quotes because they actually HURT

‘Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size’

‘The beauty of this world revealed and yet soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.’

‘I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air’

‘there was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of peoples eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth’

More.. racism..

‘she stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist’

‘I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under the beautiful big green fig-tree’

7 pages in and ALREADY racism 😑😑😑

‘i wanted to embody a physical warning — that if she began to disappear, I would disappear too.’

so weirdddddd

“Love is the kind of thing that’s already happening by the time you notice it, that’s how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn’t change”

Banana Yoshimoto you will always be famous
“Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we’ve ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten”

‘What did I gain by growing up, and what did I lose?’