Mary Jane: A Novel

Maybe a person’s standing in the community was an illusion. Like the witch in the Cone house. An imagined evil that created unnecessary rules.

To feel something was to feel alive. And to feel alive was starting to feel like love.

aberration

anthropomorphically.”

“Part of being alive is figuring out the balance between what you want, what you need, and what you have with what you don’t want, don’t need, and don’t have. I mean, Jimmy, man, you are so not alone here.

It had never before occurred to me that sometimes dishes weren’t just dishes, that things could represent ideas in more powerful ways than the ideas themselves.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin—five

Al Green, Parliament, the Meters, the Isley Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone, Labelle, and Stevie Wonder.