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Lydia
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“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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