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when people think you’re nobody, they’ll say all types of stupid shit in front of you as if you aren’t there.
“Every year they get worse,” she said. Not to me, but to an invisible audience living inside her. A hundred thousand Mrs. Rubens nestled inside her body like a Russian doll.
you might be able to dupe the boss, but karma is elegant, and God sees everything.
One moment you could be sneezing or laughing or screaming out in pain for more meds, and then the next second, how was it that everything inside you could just disappear?
But I just smiled at the woman very politely, full of love and said, “That’s why the Lord breaks the teeth of the wicked.” In other words, I’m not going to say it, because I’m a Christian, but, Cuidao, bitch.
And, anyways, I had decided that I never wanted to be skinny again; what I wanted was to be strong.
It’s okay. I’m not judging. I strongly believe that we all should be able to choose our own ways to be ashamed.
watching these women brawl made you want to return to those moments to deliver whatever punishment you thought some previous ho from another period in your life still very much deserved.
Part of me wondered what it would be like to be a kid again, to not have to work, to lie in bed all day, to simply open my mouth and scream. Surely somebody would run to my side and cradle me in the dark, whisper It’s okay my love, over and over again into my ear, until I fell asleep.
Look how beauty and subservience had so much more currency in this world than a bachelor’s degree in biology.
How many girls in the world were there who looked like Ruthy, talked like Ruthy? Laughed like her? How many of us were missing?
