Quotes By Person: Mary Karr

“And you have the same power to fascinate him, something a girl’s not supposed to acknowledge, for this particular expression of power makes her, in popular parlance, a prick tease (the more equivalent of, say, scab labor). But being able to capture his focus so completely works on you like a drug, and you’re blighted by the power of it. You can hold his entire being rapt for as long as you care to. You can feel his eyes on you, almost feeding off your form and movements. Even stepping from his car for a movie, you catch him staring at the curve of your calf. Or in the deep cauldron of the theater, he pinches your small wrist as if measuring it, turning it in his hands in a kind of wonder till you feel airy-boned as a bird.”

-Cherry, Mary Karr

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