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Mostly because I was proud of my depression. I’d read somewhere on the internet that it was a sign of extreme intelligence, and I’d started to consider depression as some type of X-ray vision, with which I could see the world clearly in ways that others could not—that is, not only the skin but also the skeleton.
when people think you’re nobody, they’ll say all types of stupid shit in front of you as if you aren’t there.
Better than any political science class you could ever take in college, a place like Mariposa’s really taught you how deeply patriarchy was linked to capitalism. But what good was it, really, to know about a thing, to attach a name to its invisible force, if, regardless, you were gonna constantly be stuck in it?
I tell you, the worst type of womanizer is the former geek.
Say something is bigger than you, like much bigger, like a lot; is it really your fault if you cannot stop it?
But past experience had taught me that familiarity and kindness meant nothing.
they didn’t have any time to consider the logistics of language acquisition. In fact, my mother did not have the words language acquisition in her vocabulary. My parents had no idea that language could disappear.
