Fear makes liars of us all.
—Carmen Maria Machado
You were young. You didn’t know that your mind could be a boon and a prison both. That someone could take its power, and turn it against you.
—Carmen Maria Machado
Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.
—Carmen Maria Machado
A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.
—Carmen Maria Machado
We will always be hungry, will always want. Our bodies and minds will always crave something, even if we don’t recognize it.
—Carmen Maria Machado
A house is never apolitical. It is conceived, constructed, occupied, and policed by people with power, needs, and fears.
—Carmen Maria Machado
People love an idea, even if they don’t know what to do with it. Even if they only know how to do exactly the wrong thing.
—Carmen Maria Machado
The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn’t that they’ll remember; it’s that you’ll remember.
—Carmen Maria Machado
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
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- Charlotte Perkins Gilman American Feminist, Writer
- Orson Scott Card American Author
- Russell Hoban American Author
- Joyce Carol Oates American Novelist
- William S. Burroughs American Novelist
- Andre Norton American Science Fiction Writer
- Robert A. Heinlein American Science Fiction Writer
- Robert Anton Wilson American Polymath
- Amy Tan Chinese-American Novelist
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