DANTIEL W. MONIZ

MILK BLOOD HEAT.

Alli

Trying to name it was like pulling up words from her belly, bucketful after bucketful, all that effort but they never meant what she wanted them to.

I have never read such an accurate description of what it’s like to be a 13 y/o girl

She is newly thirteen, hollowed out and filled back up with venom and dust-cloud dreams.

I considered that this was all being human amounted to, layer upon layer of looking.

it was her understanding that people tried to imagine as little as possible about other people's lives unless it suited them.

But Billie wasn't fooled; she knew that, worldwide, money was the cult over all things, no goodness or sin excluded. She was witnessing, in her news feeds and with her own eyes, how much a life was worth.

I hoped I would be like that someday: my hair over my shoulder, posture immaculate, fixing sandwiches in my own home in a man's Hawaiian shirt.

"You learn to be who you are, or you die as someone else. It's simple."

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