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Around the circle we went. Sharon wished people would stop reminding her that she was still young enough to have another baby. “Maybe I don’t feel like having another baby. I already did it twice. It’s not exactly a day at the spa.”
“The hole is loneliness,' said Cleo quietly.
'Why's that?' said Audrey,
'You can't stand above someone and tell them to get out of it,' she said. 'Or teach or preach it out of them. You have to be in it with them.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
'Why's that?' said Audrey,
'You can't stand above someone and tell them to get out of it,' she said. 'Or teach or preach it out of them. You have to be in it with them.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“Even if we handle it as well as possible, I thought, it’s still going to be terrible.”
― Really Good, Actually
― Really Good, Actually
“One day and it will surprise you how soon this day will come, but one day you will wake up and feel good. It won’t last long, but then you’ll have another day where you barely remember this abjection, and another, and another, until that’s just your life. But for now, it will be hard. This is the part that’s hard.”
― Really Good, Actually
― Really Good, Actually
“How many perfect autumns did a person get? Why did I seem always to be in the wrong place, listening to the wrong music?”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
“It’s really starting to piss me off that the division of our entwined lives can be like, a non-event for you and an enormous administrative chore for me.”
― Really Good, Actually
― Really Good, Actually
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