“The limitations of language have been ruining my life for a long time. Once I told a guy I was a ‘bleeding-heart liberal’ for him. I meant I just couldn’t help loving him, but it came off as a political statement. For a while, I also thought heroine was just a fancier word for hero,Continue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
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Book Quote of the Day
“He had shot the man at point-blank range. Directly in the chest. Right next to the other bullet wound. Right through the heart. The man did not fall. His neck went stiff, cocked backward, chin thrust in the air. Then, with a crack of bone that stole a gasp from Nena’s chest, his neck bentContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“I’ll be honest with you. Writing this chapter made me feel insane. Sitting at my desk, cataloguing how I became the kind of human that obliterates their body with work, patches it back together with self-care, believes my specialness makes my behavior elevated, and logs all my psychotic acts on an expensive watch that tracksContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
[Alison’s mother appears to be possessed by a demon named Azha] “I tried to croak out, ‘Who’s there?’ but the words dried up in my throat. Azha, she would hiss. Azha who? I would ask, reciting a silly knock-knock joke, a riddle. But what would the punch line be? Az-ha-ungry and I’m going to openContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“Ninang June and my mother had been best friends and rivals, and they used to pit me and Bernadette against each other when we were younger. Even after my mother passed away, Bernadette and I had felt the need to compete against each other in everything. It wasn’t until recently we realized how toxic ourContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
[Margo has escaped her former life as a killer nurse and is now a tame library clerk; she’s mad that she finished the first book that she really enjoyed reading] ” ‘Oh Constance. We are so happy.’ What about the rest of us?! I pick up the book and hurl it against the living roomContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“But the only difference between her and a mother who leaves, if there’s much of a difference at all, is that Whitney already knows there’s no relief in having left. Not if her son is in the world, existing without her. He will never not be wrapped around her conscience, infiltrating her dreams, an endlessContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“Mummer would tell us these tales over the dinner table without a flicker of doubt that God’s hand was at work in the world, as it had been in the time of the saints and martyrs, the violent deaths of whom were regularly inflicted upon us as exempla of not only the unconditional oath weContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“Old shelters–television, magazines, movies–won’t protect you anymore. You might try scribbling in a journal, on a napkin, maybe even in the margins of this book. That’s when you’ll discover you no longer trust the very walls you always took for granted. Even the hallways you’ve walked a hundred times will feel longer, much longer, andContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“One step, she thought. One step and then the next gets you where you’re going.” –Robert McCammon, Swan Song
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