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Maybe I was scared that it wouldn’t matter what I did with my life if I had no one at my side to watch me do it.
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“I've never understood why everyone know know that women are the ones who convey things in the most interesting ways, I say. We have always observed. We have been used to no audience and that has given us room to really see.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“In order to forget one life, you need to live at least one other life. The young can withstand the shock of love because another life is still possible. It is only the old who die of heartbreak.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“Routine lures you, it makes you feel your own identity. Though I often think the opposite. That in repetition, you can lose sight of yourself.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“So much of making something out of life comes from the physical world, from really looking at everything. The smell after rain, trees illuminated in a storm, the sound of a screen door, the first star, all the things that compose your existence moment to moment. It forces you to live in the present, which is the only thing I've ever known to stop the sinking fear of death.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“We grant men a right to solitude, why can't we do the same for women? I exist more complete in it.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
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