
“Jessica has a forehead scar from the deep end of a pool. I ask Jessica what drowning feels like and she says not everything feels like something else.”
―
―

“I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.”
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

“Nobody deserves anything,â€� Evelyn says. “It's simply a matter of who's willing to go and take it for themselves. And you, Monique, are a person who has proven to be willing to go out there and take what you want. So be honest about that. No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they're also painfully unoriginal.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“We did not desire or dread the boys in themselves, we only desired and dreaded being wanted or not being wanted.”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
“I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered
if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”
―
if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”
―

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