Baby Teeth
Zoje Stage
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It was hard to pour endless love into someone who wouldn't love you back. No one could do it forever”
“She resented her body's betrayal. She still couldn't express how insecure it made her, how she lived on a precipice. The most basic parts of her could fail, and there was nothing she could do to stop it.”
“Sometimes she struggled with resentment watching her family eat a meal that she prepared. People took eating and shitting for granted, like the continuous beating of their hearts, the inevitable protection of their skin. They didn't think about their intestines doing everything wrong, fucking up the basic process of digestion.”
“. . . her energy existed in precious spools that came unwound faster than she liked.”
“How much had her young brain already misconstrued? Observing, absorbing. Warping, twisting. Drawing conclusions about everything they did.”
“Words, ever unreliable, were no one’s friend.”
“The baby wasn't supposed to remind her of an internal mass of pooling waste.”
“She needed to disconnect a few times a day, like a battery in reverse that recharged when it wasn’t plugged in.”
“Now that she knew the name of the game - Scare Mommy - she should be able to defend herself. But goosebumps rose on her skin, even under the heat of the water, when she thought about her creepy daughter. The whites of her eyes. Her ability to sneak up on her as she slept.”
“Hanna loved how the pencils and crayons looked, with their pointy unused tips. She liked the quarter-size circles of watercolor paint, like frozen puddles from a dripping rainbow.”
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Book Keywords:
exhaustion, horror, art-supplies, love, color, pregnancy, chronic-illness, illness, crohns-disease, health, unrequited-love
