Aurora Berg’s Reviews > Sharp Objects > Status Update

«Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.»

«Someday I’ll carve my name there»
Jesus Christ Adora

Listening to Kronos Quartet while reading this and I must say it is a slightly life altering experience. Something in this book speaks to me and I don’t know what to make of that. Perhaps not in a very intellectual way - but in a more raw sense that I rarely experience any longer from «random» reads