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Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive.
The female body was particularly absorbent when it came to shame. If you wrung out any woman’s body, you would discover it was soaked in shame.
As is often the case when we leave someone, we expect they have stayed in the same spot we left them, as though they are statues frozen in time.
People imagined her toes twitching as she came like the feet of a girl hanging from the gallows.

