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On Sharp Objects: I didn’t like it. Though I understand why Camille and Amma resorted to drug use due to their trauma and abusive circumstances, I don’t like reading about people doing drugs. I want to read about people engaging with the world on their own, not under the influence of substances. And perhaps this is fitra, but it makes me feel icky
... See more“The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that. The reader, we must remember, does not start by knowing what we mean. If our words are ambiguous, our meaning will escape him. I sometimes think that writing is like driving sheep down a road. If there is any gate open
... See moreOn planes, I get a lot of reading done, probably because you don't have the internet.
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I treat my phone like poison. I leave the house as much as possible without it. After I had a kid, people were like, “What if there's an emergency?” Every fucking person on Earth has a phone. I'll ask the person sitting eight inches away.
Once you are released from the grip of your phone, you have like eight extra hours in the day and reading... See more
Once you are released from the grip of your phone, you have like eight extra hours in the day and reading... See more
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One thing that came up over and over: the relentless, almost inescapable attention-zapping evil of the phone.
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Going to therapy taught me I have a lot more choices than I think.
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shopping so much helped me escape and create the illusion of choice that I felt robbed of as a young Muslim girl.
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It meant realizing that the reason I relied on shopping to soothe me is because I had no time for myself and instead of trying to superficially fill the void, I had to learn how to come up with more beneficial ways to pour into myself. I started therapy, I cleared out my closet, and I stopped caring so much about how people saw me and I learned to... See more