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“Big cities comforted me: the cover, the chaos, the hollow sympathy of the architecture, the Tube lines snaking underground. London could swallow you up, in a good way. There were times when I'd been broken and being subsumed into a city had made me feel part of a whole again.”
― Animals
― Animals
“Children aren’t supposed to like dark chocolate. It’s one of those bitter things that you are meant to acquire a taste for later in life, like olives and self-pity.”
― Hungry the Stars and Everything
― Hungry the Stars and Everything
“Where were my allies? My sad captains? Those moonsick girls I drank with over long winters behind the bowling alley, driven there in cars we didn't know. Those times when we were all strangers and everything was so far away but all we needed to do was run towards it. I had not grown much. I had not reached anywhere. I was still running. When I wasn't lying down.”
― Animals
― Animals
“Sometimes I think about how many therapists in the world know about me and I feel sick with fame.”
― Adults
― Adults
“Some fresh air, some perspective. You wonder why you’re anxious when you constantly stare at a device that beams nightmares into your eyes.”
― Adults
― Adults
“It's the worst yet. I'm in TEFL City.'
'TEFL City' because we called those times 'TEFL-pondering mornings', when your only option felt like emigration and teaching.”
― Animals
'TEFL City' because we called those times 'TEFL-pondering mornings', when your only option felt like emigration and teaching.”
― Animals
“So let me get this straight,” she says, “You’re upset because someone you don’t know might not like a version of you that doesn’t really exist.”
― Adults
― Adults
“Full stop or no full stop? A full stop always looks decisive and commanding, but it can also look more cool and casual if you just leave the sentence hanging there, like, Oh I'm so busy in my dazzling life I don't even have time to punctuate. The squalid truth is I over-punctuate when I'm stressed/excited.”
― Adults
― Adults
“That’s what the mid-thirties should be about, after all: constant self-interrogation. Acquiring the courage to change what you can, and the therapist to accept what you can’t. What”
― Adults
― Adults
“In the quantum multiverse all eventualities are possible. Which means, paradoxically, that all eventualities are inevitable. They have also quite possibly already happened. Make of that what you will, not that your will has much to do with it. Because here's the thing. If you believe that consciousness is an accumulation of memory; if you believe that you often know what's going to occur either through some animal instict or a human subscription to fate, then you are a walking and talking embodiment of everything happening all at once.”
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“The night is a zoo and the next day is its museum”
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“Your imagination is filling in the gaps and joining up dots to create the wrong picture. You were always too good at that.”
― Adults
― Adults
“She didn't just change the temperature of rooms, she changed their entire chemical make-up so that anyone in the room would only be aware that the room was an extension of her and she was the thrumming nucleus.”
― Animals
― Animals
“All those exhibitions I smiled through. All those parties I hosted. All those dinners I presented. All that I was, I was not. I was a lie. The antisocial party girl.”
― Adults
― Adults
“Oh, my darling," she says, into my hair. "At least I only had to try to look like Twiggy. You've got to sing and dance and fuck and work and mother and sparkle and equalize and not complain and be beautiful and love your imperfections and stay strong and show your vulnerability and bake and box and pull fucking port. It's much too much.”
― Adults
― Adults
“We’re comforting ourselves, aren’t we, you and I? We’re living in repeats and circles because they’re reassuring that there’ll be no surprises. No more hurt.”
― Adults
― Adults
“You’re wasting time caring about all this superficial shit while the world goes to hell in a handcart. Babies are in cages on the Mexican boarder, someone I went to school with just set up a food bank in my hometown.”
― Adults
― Adults
“Mostly though, I just want to not care what every single person thinks of me all the time. And I want to not have so many people’s opinions whirring around my brain and I want to share my life with someone and not get bored. And I’m so scared that isn’t possible because that is a lot of boxes to empty and sort. And sometimes I just want to have a shower and put on a clean pair of jeans and eat a sandwich in a cafe and feel like a normal fucking person.”
― Adults
― Adults
“I’m anxious to please her because I’m an approval junkie and have a teacher–pupil dynamic with people in positions of authority.”
― Adults
― Adults
“Maybe that’s why I don’t feel like a kid,” Sony replies. “Because the planet is dying and someone needs to take responsibility.”
― Adults
― Adults
“Sarah thought: it didn’t matter who you fell in love with. What mattered was how you sold the inevitably disappointing resulting situation to yourself. That was real adult life.”
― Slags
― Slags
“Quando você está em um relacionamento com um homem branco, basicamente administra um reformatório todo santo dia, companheira. - Kelly”
― Adults
― Adults
“dining alone is underrated – there is such pleasure to be had in eating what you want and how you want, and allowing yourself to be completely immersed in the experience.”
― Hungry the Stars and Everything
― Hungry the Stars and Everything
“As always when otherwise occupied, I wanted to be writing - a desire that rarely withstood the presence of actual writing time”
― Animals
― Animals
“É o mínimo que posso fazer, interrogar a mim mesma. mesma. afinal, esse deveria ser o objetivo quando já chegamos à metade da casa dos trinta. - jehnny”
― Adults
― Adults
