I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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