The Deep
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She had no wish to transform trauma to performance, to parade what she’d come to think of as her own tragedies for entertainment.


“I suppose like others
I have come through fire and sword,
love gone wrong,
head-on crashes, drunk at sea,
and I have listened to the simple sound of water running
in tubs
and wished to drown”
― The People Look Like Flowers at Last
I have come through fire and sword,
love gone wrong,
head-on crashes, drunk at sea,
and I have listened to the simple sound of water running
in tubs
and wished to drown”
― The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
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“People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.”
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“I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.”
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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