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> [“Mara, remember how you kicked sand into that neighbor child’s eyes? I yelled at you and made you apologize in your best dress, and that night I cried by myself in the bathroom because you are Bad’s child as much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/mara-remember-how-you-kicked-sand-into-that-neighbor-child-s-eyes-i/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

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## More by Carmen Maria Machado

> [“She was a stranger because something essential was shielded, released in tiny bursts until it became a flood---a flood of what I realized I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/she-was-a-stranger-because-something-essential-was-shielded-released/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“Beyond the table, there is an altar, with candles lit for Billie Holiday and Willa Carter and Hypatia and Patsy Cline. Next to it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/beyond-the-table-there-is-an-altar-with-candles-lit-for-billie/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/many-people-live-and-die-without-ever-confronting-themselves-in-the/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?” What I want to say: “This almost broke me, but it didn’t. It made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/what-i-say-why-did-you-leave-her-with-me-what-i-want-to-say-this/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“And there was nothing in my eyes. Or even worse -- nothingness. Not the presence of a thing but the presence of a non-thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/and-there-was-nothing-in-my-eyes-or-even-worse-nothingness-not-the/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“You never live with a woman, you live inside of her, I overheard my father say to my brother once, and it was, indeed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/you-never-live-with-a-woman-you-live-inside-of-her-i-overheard-my/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“I once heard a story about a girl who requested something so vile from her paramour that he told her family and they had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/i-once-heard-a-story-about-a-girl-who-requested-something-so-vile/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“That night, I wash myself. The silky suds between my legs are the color and scent of rust, but I am newer than I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/that-night-i-wash-myself-the-silky-suds-between-my-legs-are-the-color/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“A feeling settles over me—a one-beer-deep feeling, a no-more-skittering-feet-after-the-trap-snaps feeling.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/a-feeling-settles-over-me-a-one-beer-deep-feeling-a-no-more/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“Will I ever be done, transformed in the past tense, or will I always be transforming, better and better until I die?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/will-i-ever-be-done-transformed-in-the-past-tense-or-will-i-always-be/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“She’s like dough, how the give of it beneath kneading hands disguises its sturdiness, its potential.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/she-s-like-dough-how-the-give-of-it-beneath-kneading-hands-disguises/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“Mara, remember how you kicked sand into that neighbor child’s eyes? I yelled at you and made you apologize in your best dress, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/mara-remember-how-you-kicked-sand-into-that-neighbor-child-s-eyes-i/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“(If you read this story out loud, please use the following voices: ME: as a child, high-pitched, forgettable; as a woman, the same. THE…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/if-you-read-this-story-out-loud-please-use-the-following-voices-me-as/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“When you think about it, stories have this way of running together like raindrops in a pond. Each is borne from the clouds separate,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/when-you-think-about-it-stories-have-this-way-of-running-together/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

> [“I have always been a teller of stories. When I was a young girl, my mother carried me out of a grocery store as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-maria-machado/i-have-always-been-a-teller-of-stories-when-i-was-a-young-girl-my/)

[Carmen Maria Machado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-maria-machado/)

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