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"This returned back to the library as my borrow was up, but I probably need this break. It's so bleak and intense. Well done, and will just be waiting for my hold to come through again." — Dec 19, 2025 10:06AM
"This returned back to the library as my borrow was up, but I probably need this break. It's so bleak and intense. Well done, and will just be waiting for my hold to come through again." — Dec 19, 2025 10:06AM
The most successful couples, she knew, learn how to ignore each other’s obsessions most of the time. And they had children to raise.
“We are so rarely left alone to love what we want to love, I say. Happiness comes from accepting the world the way it is. I've worked against this notion my whole life.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“I feel joy and sorrow at once. Thinking for the first time how a work of art contains the unknown thoughts of the artist, and how everyone looking at this world will never know what was in him when this was made. Even me.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“You cannot understand stillness when you have the full range of motion. We are all just bodies when it comes down to it. Though when you grow old, you are edged out of even that. How little you are able to inhabit it. You notice that pleasures always involve verbs.”
― 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
“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
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