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Those who came before are not footnotes to the Very Important Life you’re living now. They are real people, and still. They breathe through you. They bleed and cry and dance, pull their rotten teeth with pliers sanitized in bootleg rye.
“Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“it was a little like living in Moomin Valley, where the sun never sets. Days that were endless, but which you could only take one at a time, with no sense of what was coming tomorrow . . . I still can’t shake it. It lives inside me like a curse or a blessing.”
― The Premonition
― The Premonition
“Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious. This is real. That's all it says. Take the time to stop and imagine or feel fully the things you already know.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“Acceptance without expectations,” and that allowed me to stay in a relationship with my mother.”
― Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life
― Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life
“Why do we teach girls that their perspectives are inherently untrustworthy?" I would yell. I want to reclaim these words- after all, melodrama comes from melos, which means "music," "honey"; a drama queen is, nonetheless, a queen- but they are still hot to the touch. This is what I keep returning to: how people decide who is or is not an unreliable narrator. And after that decision has been made, what do we do with people who attempt to construct their own vision of justice?”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
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