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“It’s painful, sometimes, to look back on a life and wonder if anything you did could have made any difference. So much is lost; and what’s lost is lost forever. Was it destined to be lost, or could we have saved it?”
― Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
― Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
“You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you're scared of what it means to do so.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“We were both getting what we needed, though I could have done without him. It turned out he could not do without me. He likened his relationship with me to Icarus. He was Icarus and I was the sun. Lines like these, which I wholly believed and still do, made me sick to my stomach. What kind of a girl wants to be a sun over a country she doesn’t even want to visit.”
― Animal
― Animal
“Could love be giving your own solitude to another? Because that's the ultimate thing you can give of yourself.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“It reminded me, that when we know about suffering, when we are proximal to it, we are capable of extraordinary generosity. We can do and be so much for each other. But only when we see one another in our full humanity. Not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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