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Nightmare King

by Daka Hermon

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Dec 28, 2023 04:14PM

“She was certain that she deserved another life, one
that existed somewhere else, abstractly, in a virtual
world that could so easily have been hers, and that her life in the real world was nothing but an accident.”
― Édouard Louis, A Woman’s Battles and Transformations

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“I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible.”
― Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

tags: childhood, happiness, motherhood

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“Words are such unstable things.”
― Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

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“We can't be perfectly balanced as we navigate the pendulum swing of our days--we can only wobble toward what we need.”
― Madeleine Dore, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

tags: balance, equilibrium, self-help

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“Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?”
― Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

tags: liberation, mothers, writing

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