“I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible.” LanguageCommunicationSpeechLogicMetaphorRules Book:Chouette Source: Chouette
“I wonder how long I’ve been the victim of subliminal messaging from a fetus. I wonder if it goes this way for all pregnant mothers: At first we fully recognize the existential threat that is growing inside us, but gradually evolutionary imperatives overcome the conscious mind’s objection, and the will to reproduce overcomes the will to survive, and the needs of the baby overcome the needs of the host, until the only choice left for us women is to be willing, happy participants in our own destruction.” BirthSurvivalMotherhoodPregnancyHostMothersBabiesReproductionSelf DestructionParasite Book:Chouette Source: Chouette
“On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved.” Growing UpSadComing Of Age Book:Poor Deer Source: Poor Deer
“Something was springing inside of me—spring flowers, the sound of rain, a friend who made me smile. My body, moving through space. An unraveling of every clenched muscle from all the years I’d spent tensing myself into shapes that kept me safe.” FreedomEvil GeniusClaire Oshetsky Book:Evil Genius Source: Evil Genius
“Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison.” EmotionsPoisonResentment Book:Chouette Source: Chouette
“I tried to think optimistically, but nobody came. Time began to behave so strangely. Wait and see. Times like these come for us all. The particulars will be different, but times like these will surely come for you, and when they do, there will be no pulse in the world. No heartbeat. Seconds and minutes won't behave. One moment you'll be living through staccato time where everything feels sharp and bright and fast, and the next you'll be stuck in geologic time and you'll have turned to stone.” TimeGriefEvil GeniusClaire Oshetsky Book:Evil Genius Source: Evil Genius