Sublime

all of this came to seem to me effectively a form of energy in itself, a force capable of creating a dilation in time, as if she really were moving at the speed of light, away from the rest of us—stranded on earth and aging faster than her—while she looked down on us and wondered why.

Everybody learns the irrelevance of these matters next to “real suffering.”

Even after working for so long, I am often made to feel I do not belong, that none of me is valued except what I cannot control—my youth, my race, my weight, my skin, my symmetry. I am a guest here, stopping by so long as age and trend allow.

Essa foi a primeira vez que eu percebi que a perda de peso, na verdade, a magreza, era uma moeda social.

Writers are only rarely likeable. They bring nothing to the party, leave their game at the typewriter.

Because she knew that, if it came down to her word versus Loretta’s, she would always be believed. And knowing this, she felt, for the first time, truly white.

she herself was “color blind” and saw only what was in a person’s heart.

The world diminished a woman from the moment she stopped being sexually available to it, and there was nothing to do but accept that and grow older.