“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living, too.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Thoughts are only thoughts.They are not you, you belong to yourself even when your thoughts don't.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“It's not how you die. It's who you die.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Forged in the smithy of someone else's soul. Please just let me out whoever is authoring me, let me up out of this. Anything to be out of this.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other—maybe we never said it, and maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought, maybe I will never see him again, and I'll be stuck missing him, and isn't that so terrible.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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