

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.”
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“Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.”
― The Barkeep
― The Barkeep

“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen, will be like. The life of the institution dominates everything. This is one of the awful truths of incarceration, the fact that the horror and the struggle and the interest of your immediate life behind prison walls drives the “real world” out of your head. That makes returning to the outside difficult for many prisoners.”
― Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
― Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
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