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Appetites Like Stray Cats Outside A Window
Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:48 am
Algonquin Hill Books of Chapel Hill, 2014
"In the past my appetites were like stray cats outside a window, staring at me with recriminating yellow eyes . . . But now they scaled the walls of my self-discipline and clawed at me, demanding carrot cupcakes with cream-cheese frosting . . . I was becoming someone I no longer recognized: consumed with desires for food and touch and beauty and comfort, burrowing like an animal deep into its nest."
pg. 38 [On pregnancy]
"Those who live in a violent home know that a separate weather system exists beneath its roof;"
pg. 187
[This passage was really about a country living under a crazy dictator, but I thought the author described an abusive home very well.]
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