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“Something began in the dark. I’m talking about my dark now, I’m talking about myself. I’m talking about the feeling of being force-fed fistfuls of dirt by God himself.”

“Studying so much had its consequences. It caused me to wonder, for instance, if I might be a genius.”
The humor in this book is top notch!

"At times like that one wants to be able to remember. At times like that one gives oneself over to memory."

“He used to be in publishing and when he said that, I said wow, publishing, except I knew no one in publishing or anything about that field.” LOL

“The story of my painful birth, told to me a thousand times, dissolved like sugar in tea. In our house of travestis, sweetness leavened death. In that house, death could be beautiful.”

Two and a half short stories away from completing my 2024 reading year!

The ending of “A Flawless Silence” was, well, flawless!

The writing is absolutely exquisite, despite the narrator, who is incredibly grating at times

“What I wished for most was to be older - elderly, in fact. Sixty seemed like a soothing age to me; my life would be mostly behind me, all choices made.”

“They had raised their children so that concept of catch and release, like fresh oysters and organic berries, could find its way into their lives, so that their grandchildren could weep for fictional animals, and had enough space if they wanted imaginary friends to live with them.”