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“She could merge, soon, with the ground itself, and there was so much longing in that knowledge, that sweetly speckled hallucination. Like those people who died in snow, the temptation to sink and sleep in the murderous ground must be resisted. Why? She did not know, except her instinct told her: *resist.* Resist.”

“Would it be said they were abandoned or taken, the way people said *a girl was attacked,* a woman was raped, this femaleness always at the centre, as if womanhood itself were the cause of these things? As if the girls somehow, through the natural way of things, did it to themselves.”

“The body was separate from her, it was a thing she wore. The things that were done to it had nothing to do with her…at all.”

“Strange what shapes a skull could be, how much ugliness is hidden by hair.”

“She knew she was not mad, but all lunatics thought that.”