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Pachinko
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.
“Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks.”
― Folk med ångest
― Folk med ångest
“Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life.”
― Real Life
― Real Life
“We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Because even if I sometimes use the word abuse to describe certain things that were done to me, in someone else’s mouth the word turns ugly and absolute. It swallows up everything that happened.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“History has failed us, but no matter.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
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