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- One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and…
- Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
- ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst…
- The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
- So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in…
- On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up…
- There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out…
- Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak.
- I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English…
- I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
- I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the…
- I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.
- The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.
- This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of…
- I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
- I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,…
- I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance,…
- I think I made you up inside my head.
- I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
- I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core…
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