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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. They shield themselves with an aura of unavailableness (for which after a time they begin to take credit) largely as a defense tactic.
“He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it. This is one of the most bizzarre things that’s happened to me, ever. Context is all.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“The arrival of the tray, carried up the stairs as if for an invalid. An invalid, one who has been invalidated. No valid passport. No exit.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“With that man you wanted it to work, to work out. Working out was also something you did to keep your body in shape, for the man. If you worked out enough, maybe the man would too. Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“And those that there are tend to be so deep in the closet you could mistake them for a clothes hanger.”
― The Mermaids Singing
― The Mermaids Singing
JEAN SCIBERRAS’s 2025 Year in Books
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