Claire Battershill, "Brothers", from Circus
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I had made so many mistakes that I could not find my way back through their tangle to the first one. ... I felt a sickening unease that it went back further still, back to the first breath I ever drew.
Madeline Miller, Circe
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I dream of a surgeon, scooping [my jealousy] out and stitching me back up, combing my hair perfect over the scar, and my new smiling self emerging, how she feels so warm when she hears her lover’s name in another girl’s mouth.
Olivia Gatwood, Life Of The Party
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A girl is told that in order to be loved properly, she must make a habit out of service.
Olivia Gatwood, Life Of The Party
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If I had a nickel for every time I stayed up too late for someone who would never wake up for me […] a penny for every time I had to bend and stretch to prove to someone that I am here, that I exist, my heart would rattle and shake with all of the coins spilling back into it.
Melissa Lozado-Olivia, If I Got Paid For All My Emotional Labor
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