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“Now I realize I wasn’t being a typical teenager. I just didn’t want to be looked at by my mother, because I knew that when she watched me she was often calculating: examining and comparing.”
― My Body
― My Body
“Why did my fifteen-year-old self not scream at the top of her lungs? Why did I whimper and moan softly instead? Who had taught me not to scream?”
― My Body
― My Body
“But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too
young; too early.”
― I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
young; too early.”
― I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
“I was a child, but somehow already an expert in detecting male desire, even if I didn't completely understand what to make of it: Was it a good thing? Something to be afraid of? Something to be ashamed of? It seemed to be all these things at once.”
― My Body
― My Body
“But: I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against every dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
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