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Elis Aaron
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“It seemed like writers have the most important job in the world, to make books, to create a connection, a kind of telepathy between two minds in which one can inhabit the other.”
― Hollywood Park
― Hollywood Park
“Children of neglect. Orphans. Inappropriate demands. Physical boundaries. There is the sense that something is off, something indelible. that I missed it. I missed something essential, something everyone else can see.”
― Hollywood Park
― Hollywood Park
“Children of narcissists learn their feelings don’t matter to the narcissistic parent. The child carries an ever-present sense that he must bury his own ideas about the world, his own self, and do the thing required of him to please the narcissist, to receive the impossible-to-reach love and approval he craves. In short he doesn’t really know himself because he spends his life seeking to fulfill the fantasy world of the narcissistic parent.”
― Hollywood Park
― Hollywood Park
“There is only this frozen ground, this river of black water, this empty well, this blankness, these ghosts, nothing to do but forget about shelter and become the storm.”
― Hollywood Park
― Hollywood Park
“There’s a sudden sweet amnesia, a shortening of time like a warm bath where I can just float and forget. So this is why they do it. What a relief, to not only feel good but to feel nothing. It’s like the moment thirty seconds after you stub your toe when you suddenly feel better. That is what the cherry wine feels like: a dizzy hug when the pain disappears. I wonder if this is what Paul felt in his truck with his bottle, if this is why he couldn’t stop and just drank until he died. Is this why Dad had his needle in his cell? Why Tony was passed out on the floor among the trash from the party.”
― Hollywood Park
― Hollywood Park
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