“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“And don’t make the mistake of calling us resilient. To not have been destroyed, to not have given up, to have survived, is no badge of honor. Would you call an attempted murder victim resilient?”
― There There
― There There
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“We aren't here to eat, we are being eaten.
Come, pretty girl. Let us devour our lives.”
― When My Brother Was an Aztec
Come, pretty girl. Let us devour our lives.”
― When My Brother Was an Aztec
“Real suffering isn’t just about physical pain, but about not knowing when the pain will end, not knowing what the point of it all is.”
― The Five Wounds
― The Five Wounds
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