“It was the golden time of year. Every day the leaves grew brighter, the air sharper, the grass more brilliant. The sunsets seemed to expand and melt and stretch for hours, and the brick façades glowed pink, and everything got bluer. How many perfect autumns did a person get?”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
“Elephants don’t belong in rooms, and damaging thoughts don’t belong in our hearts.
I am going to kick the elephant out of the room, slay this shit, and embrace the most important truth I’ve ever learned.
I am not what I do or what I look like. I am just who I am.”
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I am going to kick the elephant out of the room, slay this shit, and embrace the most important truth I’ve ever learned.
I am not what I do or what I look like. I am just who I am.”
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“We only need to be one person.
We only need to feel one existence.
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― The Midnight Library
We only need to feel one existence.
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― The Midnight Library
“I come from a worried people. These people worry and are overly cautious. The worried people are very suggestive and read the side effects on every medication to make sure they experience all of them, even the side effects experienced by the placebo people. If it only happens in males, my female people will figure out a way to have that side effect, too. My people worry out of love, though.”
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“The goddess of sex that most men had fantasized about since their teenage years wasn’t to be found in some red-light district of town or in an illicit magazine but was actually standing right next to them at work, at the library, at the coffee shop. And they were too blind to see it!”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
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