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“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
“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
“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
“He knows I am a lifelong insomniac. How profound working into the night has been. It always strikes me how odd it is that we live with such divisions, that we spend half our lives lying down, in blackout.”
― 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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