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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.
“Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“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
“If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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