Lastly, you are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.
“The real tragedy is, of course, by always looking outward, by focusing so intently on the other person’s experience, we lose touch with our own. It’s as if we live our entire life pretending to be ourselves, as impostors impersonating ourselves, rather than feeling this is really me, this is who I am. That’s why, these days, I repeatedly force myself to return to my own experience: not are they enjoying themselves? But am I? Not do they like me? But do I like them?”
― The Fury
― The Fury
“We are all the unreliable narrators of our own lives.”
― The Fury
― The Fury
“No one wants reality; we all want a fairy tale—”
― The Fury
― The Fury
“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.” ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar”
― The Mad Wife
― The Mad Wife
“Humanity is awful, angry, and violent. But we are also magical and musical. We dance. We sing. We create. We live and laugh and rage and cry and despair and hope. We are a bundle of contradictions without rhyme or reason. And there is no one like us in all the universe.”
― In the Lives of Puppets
― In the Lives of Puppets
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