Gin Phillips

Fierce Kingdom

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  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    There is no word for what she feels pushing up through her rib cage, pulsing. It is like a scream but with fists and claws
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    all the animals in the petting zoo hate children.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    That is what you do when you have a child, isn’t it, open yourself up to unimaginable pain and then try to pretend away the possibilities.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    if you can avoid seeing it, you can pretend it’s not there.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    running, how, when the humidity is low and your muscles are loose, after a while you go weightless, sloughing off gravity, and the ache in your thighs and lungs gives way to helium, and you feel nothing.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    Sometimes she can no longer feel her feet. Sometimes her entire body has turned to air. When she runs.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    With a lover you might have a perfect comfort with each other’s body, a sense that his body belongs to you and yours to him, and you might have total unself-conscious freedom to put a hand on his thigh, to put your mouth on his in the way you know he likes best, for him to curl around you in bed,
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    His long eyelashes swoop down as he blinks, and everything about him is plumped out and soft.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    he’ll sing away in his bed until the precise time shows on his alarm clock, and then he will grab an armload of stuffed animals and push open their bedroom door, announcing, It’s seven-three-zero. I’m here to snuggle.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    and life will have gone on and this boy holding her hand will have turned into someone else entirely.
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