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Sa préférée Sa préférée by Sarah Jollien-Fardel
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“I know he’ll never get on my nerves, and that I’ll never yell at him for coming home late. I know we’ll never experience the petty bickering that goes hand in hand with domestic life.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“It doesn’t matter how much fertilizer you add, nothing will ever grow.’ The earth’s no good. I’m no good. Nothing will ever grow. Bad soil, bad seed.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“I know nothing will ever move me enough to turn things around. Nothing can break down this anger. I know the foundations of my childhood aren’t strong enough to support me.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“The churches I visited, though my heart wept for the absence of that Divine Love that had forsaken me;”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“My heart has dried up.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“I know all this. But it’s one thing knowing, having the means. It’s another thing doing.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“He may have been a bastard, the worst of the worst, but you spat in his face, Jeanne. You’re wallowing in the mire, perpetuating the suffering.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“The connection we had could not be severed, despite my dreadful way of relating to the world.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
tags: love
“But I’m not anyone. I’m the daughter of this monster. I’m the woman who cheats, I’m the woman who hits, I’m the woman made of stone, I’m the woman who’s rotten to the core, I’m the daughter who didn’t save her mother or her sister, I’m the daughter of a murderer, I’m the hollow woman, I’m the daughter watching her father die, I’m the woman who ignores her girlfriend’s pleas: ‘Make peace.’

I’m the woman who can’t forgive.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“I hadn't seen it coming, this attraction to him that was unfamiliar, haunting. No one had ever had that effect on me before. No one ever would again, though I didn't know it yet. My body sensed it long before I did.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“Was it possible that my homosexuality had been a choice resulting from pain?”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“On some primal, simplistic level, I concluded that men brought nothing but pain. It was not a physical, intellectual, or ideological choice so much as a firm, voluntary intention set on the cusp of adolescence.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
tags: trauma
“I fell in love with an image; she was proof I was moving up in the world.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
“She was living proof that no one could see the marks my father had left.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
tags: trauma
“I was born dead.”
Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée
tags: trauma