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“She’s in her father’s kitchen at age twenty-four, but so is she at age five, age nine, age eleven. She is standing where she is with her sisters and her father is here, and yet he isn’t.”

“Isn’t it funny … the way that everything’s fucked but still patched up enough to let you get to work?”

miss Julia must troll some insane Reddit threads, first book had the “my husband got lost in space” role-play support forum, and this one has “maladaptive daydreaming of a time without a flood” role-play support forum.

I love lesbians

“It’s exhausting, as it always was, to live with such a breadth of things to take up one’s attention-exhausting, the way there can be too much world, even in its final stages. Exhausting, to be so busy and so bored with no time left for either.”