“What the fuck do you know about young women, Maggie thinks. We don't remember what we want to remember. We remember what we can't forget.”
― Three Women
― Three Women
“Any notion you like, no matter how mad it seems, can be a fact's chrysalis. Once you say it loud enough and often enough it becomes debatable, Debates change minds. Debate is the larval stage of truth, Constant, unflagging, loud repetition completes your notion's metamorphis into fact. The fact takes wing and flutters from place to place and mind to mind and makes a living, permanent thing of itself.”
― From a Low and Quiet Sea
― From a Low and Quiet Sea
“The only thing that looked at her was the dispassionate sky and it looked at everything with the same gaze.”
― The New Animals
― The New Animals
“You put us on a pedestal in order to look up our skirts.”
― England, England
― England, England
“...she had described love as the act of teaching another person how to wound you most, and then agreeing tacitly never to do so.”
― The Study of Animal Languages
― The Study of Animal Languages
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