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But a good man who believed in a bad thing was a bad man

The only inevitable truth was that all lies eventually rise up to meet their makers

Some women just weren’t made for a peaceful life; she was someone who needed the simmering possibility of chaos.

The body knows a wound before the mine does

She performed the right of a grateful girl, the girl who would listen to a man’s relief and joy, subsuming her own breaking despair.

Perhaps this is what love is she thought — a relationship that didn’t require constant vigilance….Without the burden of in inscrutability, the women’s friendship bloomed.

But women grow fonder when a man feels within reach. Women do not worship God; they yearn for broken toys they can mold and imprint on. It was so stupid, and she hated herself for it.

Love was humiliation, in a way,… All love was someone breaking their soul into smaller pieces and offering the broken pieces of themselves as a puzzle to someone else — help me put myself back together.