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I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that they’ll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person.
“If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“But I wasn't listening. I wasn't stopping. Because we were already running away again, me and my imagination.”
― Bunny
― Bunny
“SOMETIMES YOU HEAR PEOPLE say so-and-so has lived well, and so-and-so has had a dull life. They are missing a key point when they say that. Any experience is experience, any life a life. A day in a cloister can be as dramatic and fatal as a day on a battlefield.”
― The Book of Goose
― The Book of Goose
“I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard to unravel.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“People will tell you not to waste your youth having too much fun, but they’re wrong. Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it. So do the right thing with your youth, Vivian—squander it.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
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