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"I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me
or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs
would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears
brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too
full."

"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to
death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would
choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing
all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and
go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet."

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" I don’t believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water."

"The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence."

"I liked feeling almost naked
on the hot summer nights."