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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

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Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would upset him. It is well known that women can deal with...more

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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not know...more

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When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of fr...more

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Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reass...more

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Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Th...more

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Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretiv...more

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But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.Maybe none of th...more

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Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

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Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.I think we found this frightening.

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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretiv...more

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By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.