Helen Oyeyemi - The Icarus Girl (2005)

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Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.

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This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

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