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‘You’re not like other children,’ said my mother. ‘And if you can’t survive in this world, you had better make a world of your own.’
“Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.’ She didn’t correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn’t tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“I wanted to be somewhere he had never been. I wanted somewhere where I didn’t have to feel his ghost. But the truth is, it only half-works, you know? Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“The Last Update That Nora Had Posted Before She Found Herself Between Life and Death
I miss my cat. I’m tired.”
― The Midnight Library
I miss my cat. I’m tired.”
― The Midnight Library
“She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn't been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the 'tonic of wildness' as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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