Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never … - Isobelle Carmody

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I'm not one of those people who walks away and says, "That's a lot better than I thought it was going to be. " I said, "No, this is as bad as I thought it was going to be, I didn't like it. I didn't want to talk to anybody. "

Isobelle Carmody

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

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Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

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Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

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The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

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The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

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Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

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