“As a witness at the door of your parents’ room, you learned every argument is a circling around the same unnamed problem. A raised voice is a shunned voice is a measured voice.”

The only thing I know for sure is that sustained creativity, regardless of recognition, is the crux of human existence.

“Time seems not so much to progress as to waft through each novel… solitude enables past, present and future to press in like ghosts.”

“The victim is not the person who wakes
in the middle of the night. The victim is not
the person who sleeps until noon.”

“What Taylor gets so right, here, is that community is by nature an elusive thing, never fully realized. There is an inherent melancholy to the idea of community, a paradoxical loneliness that lingers.”

We could shave our heads, burn our bras, protest the patriarchy, and criticize the male gaze, but Cha suggests a simpler solution: true friendship among women.