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If you beat manners into a child early and long enough, the resulting neurosis becomes indistinguishable from a personality… The brow-beaten girl that I was would have been quite content… My father chose to make that well suddenly and irredeemably inaccessible. Such dismissal leaves one feeling like a living faux pas… The privations of a narcissistic parent are sometimes subtle but rarely unimaginative.”

Okayyy it's growing on me...

“It might have been like most last words, just blurted out garbage. It’s silly how much significance the living love to heap upon final utterances and acts. As if no one was ever hit by a train or died in difficulty or was befuddled by delirium” this sort of sardonic realism resonates with me

(Sex) stimulated the mind and carried in its ecstasies, epiphanies… sex helped her think… he found their pairing to be akin to an emotional exorcism. As all the tangled and unsettled feelings: the anxiety, frustration, and dread that had gathered…over the course of the day, was all at once blown to the ether as undiluted serenity rushed in to fill the void”