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“I must begin a new existence among strange faces and strange scenes.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the story electricities of passion.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“What’s an oxy, I’d asked. That November it was still a shiny new thing. OxyContin, God’s gift for the laid-off deep-hole man with his back and neck bones grinding like bags of gravel. For the bent-over lady pulling double shifts at Dollar General with her shot knees and ADHD grandkids to raise by herself. For every football player with some of this or that torn up, and the whole world riding on his getting back in the game. This was our deliverance. The tree was shaken and yes, we did eat of the apple.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Cyrus prided himself in descending from people comfortable sitting in uncertainty. He himself knew little about anything and tried to remember that. He read once about a Sufi prayer that went “Lord, increase my bewilderment.” That was the prayer in its entirety.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“I went mad and then I was 45, which was older than I thought I'd ever be, and then I was
50, which was older than I thought I'd ever be when I was 45, and then on the night of my
57th birthday I went blind and I stood naked in the middle of my bedroom and all of a
sudden I was at the center of the universe, facing out. No more trying to get in anyone
else's head. Oh, what does she think of me? What does that man bagging my groceries
think of--nope. It's just me! Alone in the universe! Standing in the center of my own life.
I can't even look in a mirror. It's just me and my thoughts and sometimes I have no
thoughts at all. Sometimes I just lie in bed in the morning and think about nothing.
Imagine that.
Before you take a break, imagine that.
Sitting in the center of your own life with no thoughts at all about what other people are
thinking.
They can think whatever they like.
You can all think whatever you like about me.”
― John
50, which was older than I thought I'd ever be when I was 45, and then on the night of my
57th birthday I went blind and I stood naked in the middle of my bedroom and all of a
sudden I was at the center of the universe, facing out. No more trying to get in anyone
else's head. Oh, what does she think of me? What does that man bagging my groceries
think of--nope. It's just me! Alone in the universe! Standing in the center of my own life.
I can't even look in a mirror. It's just me and my thoughts and sometimes I have no
thoughts at all. Sometimes I just lie in bed in the morning and think about nothing.
Imagine that.
Before you take a break, imagine that.
Sitting in the center of your own life with no thoughts at all about what other people are
thinking.
They can think whatever they like.
You can all think whatever you like about me.”
― John
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