“Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around me, as if death was more of a miracle than life was.”
― Mr Salary
― Mr Salary
“It was in my nature to absorb large volumes of information during times of distress, like I could master the distress through intellectual dominance.”
― Mr Salary
― Mr Salary
“Marianne takes significant personal pleasure in having her pain validated by professionals.”
― At the Clinic
― At the Clinic
“Derrida remarked that friendship’s driver isn’t the pursuit of someone who is just like you. A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”
― Stay True: A Memoir
― Stay True: A Memoir
“So you’ll know there was tenderness, as well as pain. So you’ll know how we failed, both of us, but also how we both tried.”
― My Policeman
― My Policeman
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