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“…because denial, fabrication—storytelling—was her way of staying one step ahead of her life, how could any of us tell her she was wrong?” (197)
“Pain, however, is no story in itself”
— Jun 03, 2023 08:05AM
“Pain, however, is no story in itself”
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“Sorry is a tool one uses to pander until the word itself becomes currency. It no longer merely apologizes, but insists, reminds: I’m here, right here, beneath you…..In the nail salon, one’s definition of sorry is deranged into a new word entirely, one that’s charged and reused as both power and defacement at once.” (91-92)
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“Lo siento, I wanted to say. But I couldn’t. Because by then my sorry had already changed into something else. It had become a portion of my own name—-unutterable without fraudulence.” (93)
“I had thought sex was to breach new ground, despite terror, that as long as the world did not see us, it’s rules did not apply. But I was wrong.The rules, they were already inside us.” (120)
