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Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day.
im surprised i haven't gotten struck by lightning yet
“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Well, everyone's crazy these days, Dr. Singh. Adolescent sanity is so twentieth century.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Our hearts were broken in the same places. That's something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“We always say we are beneath the stars. We aren't, of course—there is no up or down, and anyway the stars surround us. But we say we are beneath them, which is nice. So often English glorifies the human—we are whos, other animals are that—but English puts us beneath the stars, at least.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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