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Megan Abbott

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    The world is blood-hot and personal.
    —Sylvia Plath
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    When you get away with something it’s yours only, forever. Heavy and irremediable.
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    “My mom always says, you don’t have a self until you have a secret.”
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    “Put animals in a small, closed space, and the one with the sharpest nails, the pointiest teeth wins.”
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    showed me what darkness was, and is, and how it works, and how it never goes away or ends.
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    to quote Deuteronomy, The blood is the life.”
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    She is the golden girl she was always destined to be.

    Except this: I can look in her face and know her for who she is, what she is. A devil, a goblin damn’d.
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    “Listen, Kit, there are some people who are trouble. They can’t help it,” she said, watching me in the mirror. “But let them in, and they’ll swallow you whole.”
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    The big surprise came later when I learned the scariest part about sex wasn’t the swell and heave of body parts, its comic grotesquerie, but the shattering intimacy of all of it
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    I’d never seen on Diane before, a smile that was open and wide and pure, one that said, Untouched, please touch, never been touched, dying to be touched, come show me the big, wide world.
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