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“And so I almost never told anyone what I liked because I was terrified that they would tell me how stupid it was. Every single thing you loved became a source of both intense obsession and possible shame.”

“There was this little voice in my head, and it was telling me what to write down. And I knew that this little voice, this tiny, insistent voice, was not God and it wasn’t some muse and it wasn’t anyone in the world except for me. This voice was my voice. This voice was my voice and no one else’s voice, and I could hear it so clearly. And it wasn’t finished.”