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"Wherever I see beauty, she sees rot, and where I see misery, she sees a lesson learned."

"I must leave now before she rolls over and gives me a reason to stay, before I fall in love with the remains of last night's eyeliner under her eyes. Her makeup is on the pillowcase, the sweat of her neck is on the sheets, and I wish that a piece of me would be left behind the same way. Is that dirty? Is that fair of me?"

"She's her mother's daughter anyway?"
I am afraid that we might all be our mothers' daughters.

"She took her eucharist before me, and I quietly apologised to Jesus for the downgrade from her tongue to mine. It was a feeling of deep shame which I still don't understand."