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“My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world.

They didn’t matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“As I walked, I pictured the salt air and the endless water stretching out, covering the houses, crashing over the freeways, drowning out the voices of men who wish for you not to love them and the sounds of girls crying into pillows, oceans dripping from their eyes.”
― Wendy C. Ortiz, Excavation

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“All wisdom ends in paradox.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides