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“Girl frightened. Girl destroyed. Girl as a symptom. / Girl in a paroxysm of rage. Girl disappeared in a / death-like loss of feeling. Girl as indescribable evil.
– The Only Good Girl is a Dead Girl”
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– The Only Good Girl is a Dead Girl”
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“Because people die. The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that something does.”
― War of the Foxes
― War of the Foxes
“Memory taps a gun to your inner skull and demands you bring back the dead.”
― Autopsy
― Autopsy

“She’s using the pen name Juniper Song to pretend to be Chinese American. She’s taken new author photos to look more tan and ethnic, but she’s as white as they come. June Hayward, you are a thief and a liar. You’ve stolen my legacy, and now you spit on my grave.”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface

“What more can we want as writers than such immortality? Don't ghosts just want to be remembered?”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface

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