Ila Perey’s Reviews > The Hexologists > Status Update

If you beat manners into a child early and long enough, the resulting neurosis becomes indistinguishable from a personality… The brow-beaten girl that I was would have been quite content… My father chose to make that well suddenly and irredeemably inaccessible. Such dismissal leaves one feeling like a living faux pas… The privations of a narcissistic parent are sometimes subtle but rarely unimaginative.”

(Sex) stimulated the mind and carried in its ecstasies, epiphanies… sex helped her think… he found their pairing to be akin to an emotional exorcism. As all the tangled and unsettled feelings: the anxiety, frustration, and dread that had gathered…over the course of the day, was all at once blown to the ether as undiluted serenity rushed in to fill the void”

“No one has any compunction about shouting at a race track”
I shall adopt this justification for being more expressive in the boudoir as my own, henceforth. I, too, am full of passion.