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this damn water motif...

"the memory is a neat-edged knife pressed tight into her ribcage--a quick slit, a gentle downward slicing."

"funny too, despite this, to recognize their weak moments of alliance, of affection . . . the three of them, trying to be less isolated and frequently failing, trying to be less conclusively the product of their past."

u already know what i'm thinking

"the problem has always been the way he left them alone in the house for long periods, the way he spoke to his daughters, the way he pitted one against the other--left each to struggle for a love they should have known they couldn't earn. the problem has always been squaring one fact with another, her father's great ease and easy cruelty."

"she remembers him looking at her--opaque expression of one thinking of something else--imagines she is eight again, thirteen again, and the nothing she always was in his company."

king lear retellings we are SO back!!!! roman roy you will always be famous

obviously and infinitely :']