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“Fashion can be an emotional experience.”
― André Leon Talley, The Chiffon Trenches

“The older the man, the more my specialty. I knew that when I met God one day it would go well.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“There is no better invitation in the world than women laughing.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Beautiful things demand touch. Hence the taped floors at art museums and the roped boundaries between paparazzi and celebrities on red carpets.”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“We are the unwitting carriers of our parents’ secrets, the ripples made by stones we never saw thrown.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“Men never notice the overcalculating that women do. They think things happen "for some weird reason" while women sing songs and do backbends and dance elaborate moves to make those things happen.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“May you not go around the world looking to fill what you fear you lack with the flesh of another human being.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“Love must be kind, and it must be a two-way street. Loyalty between two persons in an alliance of true friendship is a noble human endeavor. In true friendship, a human being finds strength. Good times or bad; the highest peak or the lowest valley in one’s life.”
― André Leon Talley, The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir

“Men were always putting their coats around my shoulders. They mark their territory that way. It’s better to freeze to death.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“I realized that "demon" is a subjective term, and the splitting of my identity between devil and God, between impure and pure, was something that my mum did to me, rather than the reality of my existence.”
― Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

“I’m not really sure what I am anymore, though- wether I’m a monster or wether I’m just a woman, or both.”
― Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

“Housekeeping is nothing more than a losing encounter with entropy.”
― Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

“I read once that women are more likely than men to cry when they are angry. I know that women cry out of shame. We are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way that it transforms us. We cry to quell what we feel, even when it's trying to tell us something, even when it has every right to exist.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“We're the oldest love triangle in the world: mother, father, child.”
― Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

“Grudges are for humans too small for forgiveness.”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

“Our worlds are only as big as the spaces we create for ourselves.”
― Diana Clarke, Thin Girls

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
― Yara Zgheib, The Girls at 17 Swann Street

“Empty, what does that word evoke? Shall I free-associate? Hollow, bereft, going clear. Empty is vapid, zero, of no interest. Empty is absence. So different than the valence the word carried for me! Empty was promise. Empty was power. Empty was the ultimate security.”
― Susan Burton, Empty

“Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is.”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

“My mind can make love out of anything, even the smallest of shards.”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“I got here the same way the coin did.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men