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“I am not here. I have no face. Other people have faces…Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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Mary Oliver, We should be well prepared

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PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM, kyung-sook shin, trans. chi-young kim

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And that’s okay.

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the house as a site of trauma

clementine von radics, from “courtney love prays to oregon” / gregor schneider, haus ur / natalia ginzburg, from the little virtues / I am the pretty thing that lives in the house (2016) / mahmoud darwish, from “a river dies of thirst” / li-young lee, from “with ruins” / lost river (2014) / salma deera, from “when god talks to your father”

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Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

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Anne Carson, excerpt from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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i can’t help but wrap my arms around the story of my life if only mom had cared to hold me for a second in her sight

the way she used to look through me (if i’d cried, would you have cared?) still has me wondering if i’m right to hate just how she stared

there’s a loss of love between us two where something gentle ought to be an aching maw of nothingness you scare me, so i leave

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if you          can think

      yourself         better    you             can also make               yourself       sick

with love                         call it mania         for                             a collective

      breakdown              a stress response against      a line of               history

that        speeds         fast     like red metal                 towards dense fog

— Jessica Q. Stark, from “Conversion Disorders in the Burn Pits, Please Take Flight,” Savage Pageant

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Quote by Anne Carly

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the torn-up road by richard siken - geoff mcfetridge