Steven Millhauser

Quotes

Maria Araújohas quoted10 months ago
Five past twelve. Do you know where your children are? The room is so hot that the heat is a hand gripping her throat. Got to move, got to do something. Moonlight is streaming in past the edges of the closed and slightly raised venetian blinds. She can’t breathe in this room, in this house. Oh man, do something. Do it. The crickets are growing louder.
Maria Araújohas quoted10 months ago
but the thought disturbs her— she feels exposed, a girl in moonlight, out in the open, spied on. She doesn’t want anyone to look at her. No one is allowed to think about her body.
Maria Araújohas quoted10 months ago
The inside of her skin itches. Her bones itch. So how do you scratch your bones?
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