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“It was a voice you could snag your sweater on, or perhaps chip one of your teeth, but it was also sweet enough to suck on, to sleep with in your mouth.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“In principle, all women should give themselves permission to demand good treatment, but the world made doing so profoundly difficult”
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
“That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new breath. It was uncertain and it was undeniably hard, and it wasn't something you could plan for.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
“She had trouble being in her body in general, which was why she liked to be roughed up by the elements and was always either sunburned, windblown, or damp from the rain.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“Love was not something, I realized, that came to you from outside. I had always thought that love was supposed to come from other people, and somehow, I was failing to catch the crumbs of it, failing to eat them, and I went around belly empty and desperate. I didn’t know that love was supposed to come from within me, and that as long as I loved others, the strength and warmth of that love would fill me, make me strong.”
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
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Ali’s 2024 Year in Books
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