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“i find it so bizarre that i occupy space, and that i am seen by other people. i feel like i am falling through space and Eleanor just threw me a rose. Its such a sweet, pointless gesture. It would be less devastating to fall through space alone, without someone else falling next to me. whenever someone does something nice for me, I feel intensely aware of how strange and sad it is to know someone.
she beams. "of couse i remember the things you say.”
― Emily Austin

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

“That's all there is to the self, or the so-called 'self': traces of the people we rub up against. I loved Joanna's words and gestures and let them become part of me, intentionally or not. I suppose that is at the core of every relationship and the reason that in some sense no relationship ever ends.”
― Ia Genberg, Detaljerna

“We live so many lives within our lives – smaller lives with people who come and go, friends who disappear, children who grow up – and I never know which of these lives is meant to serve as the frame.”
― Ia Genberg, The Details