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Maya Bishop’s Timeline

  • Here’s a recap of everything Maya wrote on her timeline in 608.

    • 3 years old : Mason was born
    • 3 years old : Cousin’s first track meet, she loses
    • 4 years old : “… for first soccer…”
    • Dad takes me to Atlanta Olympic Games. Fernanda Ribeiro wins 10,000 meters gold.
    • 6 years old. Struggled with reading. Dad wouldn’t let me eat dinner till I could read a page without mistakes.
    • “Wrote the most book reports!” (around 6 years old)
    • 6 years old. Birthday party bouncy house. Parents mad other kids show up.
    • 7 years old. Boy punched me because I said I was better.
    • 7 years old. High school coach tells my dad I have talent for a girl. First time I beat someone with a smile on.
    • 7 years old. Got first pair of track shoes with blue stripes and green laces
    • 8 years old. Dad and I were winning …
    • 8 years old. Joined the local club team. I was the youngest
    • 9 years old. Started cross country wanted to quit. Dad said only losers quit
    • 9 years old. Dad gets us a family pass for high school track season, sprinted got surprised flack
    • 10 years old. Brandi Chastain was winning USA goal !
    • 11 years old. What I want to be when I grow up presentation. Olympic athlete.
    • 11 years old. Went to the soccer summer camp. No one would pass me the ball. First time someone said my dad was intense and I hit him.

    Extra info :

    • The Atlanta Olympic Games were in 1996 so Maya was, supposedly, 7 years old.
    • Brandi Chastain won in 1999. That means Maya was 10 in 1999. She was born in 1989.
    • Maya was 23 when she competed in the 2012 Olympics.
    • Mason is now canonically the younger brother (it was assumed) and they have a 3-year age gap.
    • Everything in the timeline was written in red. Except for “blue stripes and green laces” (colors in the text). And “First time someone said my dad was intense and I hit him.” (that was in black)

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    Thank you to everyone on Twitter and Tumblr who contributed to this!

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  • weusedtobegiants

    I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.

    Jeanette Winterson, from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal

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  • weusedtobegiants

    When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love – its quality – to be unreliable. Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning the love you get is the love that sets. I did not know that love could have continuity. I did not know that human love could be depended upon.

    Jeanette Winterson, from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal

    • Aug 4 337 notes
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  • mydailybookquotes

    “In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”

    -Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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  • greelin

    i am in fact NOT being very brave about it and will whine and complain until i die. As is my right

    • Aug 4 19,124 notes
  • feral-ballad

    When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love – its quality – to be unreliable. Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning the love you get is the love that sets. I did not know that love could have continuity. I did not know that human love could be depended upon.

    Jeanette Winterson, from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

    • Jul 28 2,835 notes
    when I say I’m devastated for life by her writing I mean itlike Jeanette why would you do this to mejeanette winterson
  • feral-ballad

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    Jeanette Winterson, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    [Text ID: ‘And what if I stay?’ ‘You will find yourself destroyed by grief. All you know will be around you, and at the same time far from you. Better to find a new place now.’]

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  • feral-ballad

    What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?

    Jeanette Winterson, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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