Best Carmen Maria Machado Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Then the not-memory washed away like a wet painting in a storm, and I was in the shower, shaking, and she was outside, losing me, and there was no way for me to tell her not to.”

Mothers Simile Figurative Language Carmen Maria Machado Her Body And Other Parties

Book:Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Source: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting.”

Lovely Description Simile Figurative Language Carmen Maria Machado Her Body And Other Parties The Husband Stitch

Book:Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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“You wondered, when she came along, if this was what most people got to experience in their lives: a straight line from want to satisfaction; desire manifested and satisfied in reasonable succession. This had never been the case before; it had always been fraught. How many times had you said, 'If I just looked a little different, I'd be drowning in love'? Now you got to drown without needing to change a single cell. Lucky you.”

Want Love Desire Unrequited Love Carmen Maria Machado In The Dream House Fraught

Book:In the Dream House

Source: In the Dream House

“How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?”

Want Desire Unrequited Love Unloved Carmen Maria Machado In The Dream House

Book:In the Dream House

Source: In the Dream House

“You wanted someone to be obsessed with you. How could you accomplish that?”

Want Desire Obsession Obsessed Carmen Maria Machado In The Dream House

Book:In the Dream House

Source: In the Dream House

“Please don't shut me out. Or if you're going to, just tell me, tell me so that I'm not dangling in this in-between space.”

Relationships Honesty Stuck Pleading Limbo Carmen Maria Machado Plea In The Dream House

Book:In the Dream House

Source: In the Dream House

“In this way, the Dream House was a haunted house. You were the sudden, inadvertent occupant of a place where bad things had happened. And then it occurs to you one day, standing in the living room, that you are this house's ghost: you are the one wandering from room to room with no purpose, gaping at the moving boxes that are never unpacked, never certain what you're supposed to do. After all, you don't need to die to leave a mark of psychic pain. If anyone is living in the Dream House now, he or she might be seeing the echo of you.”

Pain Ghost Carmen Maria Machado Living Dead In The Dream House Ghostly

Book:In the Dream House

Source: In the Dream House

“The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you.”

Poor Class Social Commentary Carmen Maria Machado Her Body And Other Parties The Husband Stitch

Book:Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Source: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“They are talking about how we can't trust the faded women, women who can't be touched but can stand on the earth, which means they must be lying about something, they must be deceiving us somehow.”

Feminism Metaphor Symbolism Social Commentary Carmen Maria Machado Her Body And Other Parties Real Women Have Bodies

Book:Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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“You will never feel as desperate and fucked up and horrible as you do when you hear those things.”

Horrible Desperate Carmen Maria Machado Tormented Triggering In The Dream House

Book:In the Dream House

Source: In the Dream House

“I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did.”

Writing Death Identity Carmen Maria Machado In The Dream House

Book:In the Dream House

Source: In the Dream House

“I want to say, Don't bother asking me anything. I want to say, There is nothing underneath.”

Identity Social Interaction Social Anxiety Interior Carmen Maria Machado Her Body And Other Parties Difficult At Parties

Book:Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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“BAD BLOOD": Stabler and Benson will never forget the case where solving the crime was so much worse than the crime itself.”

Carmen Maria Machado Her Body And Other Parties Especially Heinous Elliot Stabler Svu Olivia Benson

Book:Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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“None of us will make it to the end.”

Carmen Maria Machado Her Body And Other Parties Real Women Have Bodies

Book:Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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“He wishes they were still floating safely in the unborn space, which he imagines to be grayish-blue, like the Atlantic, studded with star-like points of light, and thick as corn syrup.”

Descriptive Carmen Maria Machado Her Body And Other Parties Especially Heinous Elliot Stabler Svu

Book:Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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“I've missed you," he says. I've missed myself, you want to say, but you don't.”

Missing Identity Missed You Carmen Maria Machado Loss Of Self In The Dream House

Book:In the Dream House

Source: In the Dream House