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nuh uh

"Perhaps it would have been better if he were missing a limb, or if a jagged scar cut across his body. Then at least the contours of his loss, and incapacity, would have been clear."

"A beast gnaws at me at all hours of the day, but you can't see it. I feel so weak and scattered my mind won't work— but here I am, speaking to you, clearly alert. My tummy hurts-what a joke."

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I hate men

"If she could sift through that mess in her head, pull out the files that kept torturing her, and burn them. Every small humiliation, every shred of guilt. [...] You could achieve so much without the burdens of personhood. Who wouldn't wash away the rest?"

"Here she belonged. Here she could utter things, could be honest about where her mind had drifted, and they wouldn't look at her like she was mad. All her life she had bumbled through social contact like the only actor who'd forgotten to look at the script. [...] And here no one punished you for caring too much, thinking too deeply."

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alice is literally me

helllll no I do NOT vibe with this whole allegory we have going on rn 😭😭😭 hopefully this isn't actually implying anything I'm SCARED