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He would say that you simply can’t cheat an honest man.
that Baltimore’s grifts are really about what women have been taught they need from a man.
He doesn’t really give you time to think that. He doesn’t really give you time to think at all.
Tegan speaks in a way I recognize from a lot of people in her generation—the phrase “healthy relationship to trauma” trips easily off her tongue; she’s steeped in a language that makes it possible for her to talk about pain.
No one in the Hawkins house wields a feeling like a weapon, or like a leash.
Worrying about a hundred other things that have nothing to do with all this, because worrying is a runaway train.
Puts me back in my body, which makes my mind a quieter place.
her haste a reflex, as though she thinks anything that feels this good might get snatched away from her at any second.
after a few weeks had passed, at least, I could see it more clearly. I was waking up from a spell, in a way.
Mom will always be an absent presence, a person who’ll get huger and more damaging to us if we never acknowledge to each other that she’s out there.
