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“My appetite is vast, and I am in agony knowing myself to be unsatisfied”.

“There is a deep, old anxiety in me that cannot abide uncertainty, that cannot rest without all facts and knowledge within my command. To be so wholly in another’s hands in unbearable.”

“I am a woman woken from thirty years slumber, and I would eat the world should it satisfy this empty, keening void where my heart should be”.

“It is as though she has made mobile some long-calcified element of my soul, a great crack of a landslide within me as something shakes loose — something buried by death and blood and fear.”

“All my courage has been used up, and I want to run barefoot in the moors, as far as I can make it before I collapse, so far that I cease to be….and I am only animal muscle and blood, instinct and adrenaline, and I need feel this shame, this humiliation, this abject despair no more.”

“There is something empty in me. I can feed and feed and feed it, but somehow, I am never satiated.

There is one way in which Carmella is right: I am hungry.”

“Who taught you not to dream?”….
“Everyone. No one. Life itself, I suppose. A dream is a dangerous thing.”

It really hits home on the topic of fitting into society and what it is to be normal. My whole life I’ve always felt like an outsider, not belonging to one specific group but to many different ones. It’s nice to see this feeling of isolation is not something new.

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