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“He said "see" as if it meant something more than what one did with one's eyes.”
― The Thing Around Your Neck
― The Thing Around Your Neck
“Ikenna, I have come to realize, is a man who carries with him the weight of what could have been.”
― The Thing Around Your Neck
― The Thing Around Your Neck
“But then, didn’t everyone only tell their lives – truly tell their lives – to one person?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self. And if that works, why not feeling disgust for shit, fearing the cliff edge and strangers, remembering insults and favours, liking sex and food? God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually.”
― Nutshell
― Nutshell
“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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