Why a porcelain face? Why not a rag doll, such as my own, with button eyes on a face of cloth? This penchant for alluding to things I never had, where does it come from? This unaccountable attraction to the so-called finer things described
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“That's all there is to the self, or the so-called 'self': traces of the people we rub up against. I loved Joanna's words and gestures and let them become part of me, intentionally or not. I suppose that is at the core of every relationship and the reason that in some sense no relationship ever ends.”
― Detaljerna
― Detaljerna
“We live so many lives within our lives – smaller lives with people who come and go, friends who disappear, children who grow up – and I never know which of these lives is meant to serve as the frame.”
― The Details
― The Details
“Some books stay in your bones long after their titles and details have slipped from memory.”
― The Details
― The Details
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