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• “Family stories teach us how to live. Family secrets teach us to kill parts of ourselves.”

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• “Sometimes, if you want to save other people, you need to remember to save yourself first.”

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• “If a woman crafted by the gods themselves could be consigned to this fate, what hope was there for a woman born of a woman?”

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• “I think lonely creatures ache for each other because who else can understand but someone who feels the same dark, black abyss?”

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• “Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a different past. They tell you successful therapy is when you have the big discovery that your parents did the best they could with what they were given.”

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• “Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”

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• “The fat on my body never felt as heavy as your words on my heart.”

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• “Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip. ”

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• “The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another.”

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• “Abusers do not need to be, and rarely are, cackling maniacs. They just need to want something and not care how they get it.”

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• “It’s not that I want exactly this, to have a husband or home security system that, for the length of our marriage, never goes off. It’s that there are gray, anonymous hours like this. Hours when I am desperate, when I am ravenous, when I know how a star becomes a void.”

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• “The tone policing of respectability ensures that the fight for equality becomes the responsibility of the oppressed.”