Books

"I want to make my work invisible because then I can feel more powerful than those who overlook it. Cannier. Slippery. A rich witch. A ghost."

"I was thinking: Girls get scared way too often. Girls get stupidly scared. I was not scared. Telling myself not to be scared kind of worked. "

I looked at her and I could see she was reading me, seeing how the conversation with Jim had gone, getting everything she needed to know—the words were just her playing for time. Since meeting Tyler I’d believed that a psychic connection between human beings was possible. ‘Kinship’ is the best word in English for it. The French call it une affinité profonde, which I also like it but it still doesn’t quite get there. It’s that doppelgänger effect that can go either way: to mutual understanding or mutual destruction.

"I am sad that even the removal of an organ is not enough to scare me into being responsible. Not the threat of poverty, loneliness, disgust, despair, social stigma -- none of it is heavy enough to make me endure unendurable boredom. I don't know how. I don't know how to do it."

“Finally I took off my bra

So many wolves fell out"