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“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot
“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
― The Light That Failed
― The Light That Failed
“If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.”
― The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known
― The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known
“I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.”
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Dylan’s 2024 Year in Books
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