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1 " Someone peeled back the surface of our town, and the whole country saw what was underneath. By Easter 1980 we were creepier than Amityville. "
― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie
2 " She looks like there are no words inside her at all, like language has taken a vacation from her life and left her alone. "
― Meredith Miller , Little Wrecks
3 " The thing is, it didn't fit together. It was the mess that made us. "
4 " It's just sometimes I think if more girls showed people how things are, people might notice, you know? "
5 " Sometimes when you're mad it seems like you lost people, but later you find out you didn't. "
6 " I felt like a strong light could erase me. "
7 " It didn't look any different that night, but all the invisible changes were already working their way to the surface. "
8 " Now we're broke. Broken. So I'm looking back from here at that night when I was happy. "
9 " Last year the cracks in our world got so big we couldn't reach across them anymore. "
10 " But I just felt suffocated by the blanket people had thrown over my life. I wanted to push it off and start yelling about what was underneath. "
11 " The thing is, once your questions stop being the "why is the sky blue?" kind and start to really matter, people panic. "
12 " You might break the silence everybody's using to glue their lives together. "
13 " People either gave me a load of pointless advice or tried to make me shut up.Like the truth was just some problem I had. Some phase I was going through.They were all trying to calm me down and shush me. "
14 " I'm the poison, the source of all the lies and the blindness. "
15 " I didn't need to hide because I was already invisible. "
16 " The whole world had flipped over and gotten tangled up into the sky. "
17 " He would have realized, right in that last second, the meaning of time. "
18 " Why are everyone's horrible secrets always falling out of the corners onto my fucking head? "
19 " If you have a dreaming mind, it's a crime to waste it, especially in this country. "
20 " It was complicated and beautiful, and it made me furious. "