The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky Quotes

“Things will never be different. Women will always give more of themselves to men; at the very least let them pay for dinner.”
― Jana Casale, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky

“A few hours after the nurse left, Leda felt suddenly very tired. She thought that maybe she should lie still, and then she thought of herself and the way it felt to sing in a shower and how good and free she was then, like there was lightning all over her body and the
whole world was taking notice of the electricity. Then she thought of herself as little fragments drifting into the universe in tiny little pieces, and then she thought of each little fragment as separate and
singular to herself, and she could not tell if she were only the fragments or if she were ever anything bigger than that. She closed her eyes and the hospital ceiling was the last thing she saw. The last thing
she heard was the sound of her own heartbeat, improbably consistent, uniquely her own. She counted the beats, one two three four five six seven eight nine ten ... But then there were no more numbers of
words. There was just her heart. The sound of her heart to herself sound she'd heard so many times, a sound she barely ever listened to. And then there was nothing at all.”
― Jana Casale, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky

“On her walk home she'd pick a daisy for Annabelle, and six years later she'd make a daisy chain for Annabelle to wear in her hair;
many years after that, as an old grandmother lying in bed, she'd open a book to a daisy pressed between the pages and remember her mother, who cut a fresh bouquet each spring. How unaware she was of the little pieces of her life that fit together seamlessly and without touching. It was as spectacular as anything, really, as little as it was
anything at all.”
― Jana Casale, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky