You Feel So Mortal Quotes

“The salesman waited silently on the other side of the counter. Suddenly, his silence felt like all the reasons I might need a knife to begin with: as a counter against fear and contempt and scorn and judgment and accusation; something I could put between myself and the world, the world's perceptions of me, and my perceptions of myself.”
― Peggy Shinner, You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body