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"think this is my karma for dnfing the myth of sisy….." — Dec 29, 2025 09:37AM
"think this is my karma for dnfing the myth of sisy….." — Dec 29, 2025 09:37AM
“CORALINE'S STORY
THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.”
― Coraline
THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.”
― Coraline
“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“The axiom of equality states that x always equals x: it assumes that if you have a conceptual thing named x, that it must always be equivalent to itself, that it has a uniqueness about it, that it is in possession of something so irreducible that we must assume it is absolutely, unchangeably equivalent to itself for all time, that its very elementalness can never be altered. But it is impossible to prove. Always, absolutes, nevers: these are the words, as much as numbers, that make up the world of mathematics. Not everyone liked the axiom of equality––Dr. Li had once called it coy and twee, a fan dance of an axiom––but he had always appreciated how elusive it was, how the beauty of the equation itself would always be frustrated by the attempts to prove it. It was the kind of axiom that could drive you mad, that could consume you, that could easily become an entire life.
But now he knows for certain how true the axiom is, because he himself––his very life––has proven it. The person I was will always be the person I am, he realizes. The context may have changed: he may be in this apartment, and he may have a job that he enjoys and that pays him well, and he may have parents and friends he loves. He may be respected; in court, he may even be feared. But fundamentally, he is the same person, a person who inspires disgust, a person meant to be hated.”
― A Little Life
But now he knows for certain how true the axiom is, because he himself––his very life––has proven it. The person I was will always be the person I am, he realizes. The context may have changed: he may be in this apartment, and he may have a job that he enjoys and that pays him well, and he may have parents and friends he loves. He may be respected; in court, he may even be feared. But fundamentally, he is the same person, a person who inspires disgust, a person meant to be hated.”
― A Little Life
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Et puis un jour, tu meurs. (...)
Nous, on est en cocon familial à la campagne. Ce que mes parents ont construit et qui ne te ressemble pas. Une famille qui se colle.
(...) Ma mère s'accroche aux murs. C'est Hiroshima dans son ventre.
Enfin débarrassée de ton absence.
Elle deviendra peut-être normale. Une femme, avec une mère enterrée. (p. 16)”
― La femme qui fuit
Nous, on est en cocon familial à la campagne. Ce que mes parents ont construit et qui ne te ressemble pas. Une famille qui se colle.
(...) Ma mère s'accroche aux murs. C'est Hiroshima dans son ventre.
Enfin débarrassée de ton absence.
Elle deviendra peut-être normale. Une femme, avec une mère enterrée. (p. 16)”
― La femme qui fuit
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