58 Quotes by Carmen Maria Machado

Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.

Please don't shut me out. Or if you're going to, just tell me, tell me so that I'm not dangling in this in-between space.

Then the not-memory washed away like a wet painting in a storm, and I was in the shower, shaking, and she was outside, losing me, and there was no way for me to tell her not to.

Will I ever be done, transformed in the past tense, or will I always be transforming, better and better until I die?

I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did.

I've missed you," he says.I've missed myself, you want to say, but you don't.

I want to say, Don't bother asking me anything. I want to say, There is nothing underneath.

I feel like a lot of my life has been about intentionally approaching the things that freak me out. I’m easily freaked out. I’m super anxious. I’ve always been that way. I’m a very fearful and anxiety-ridden person. I feel like part of my life project has been walking up to things that freak me the fuck out and just doing them because otherwise I’d be mad at myself. That’s really important to me.

The car is going so fast that you feel wild, you feel like you could die right now and it would be thrilling. You realize you are laughing, and he goes even faster.