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“I feel like there’s this really slippery slope between being glad you have something and thinking you deserve it.”
― Saint X
― Saint X
“Sometimes he wonders if it is his fate to be controlled by people with the tug of stars, to let himself be pulled into their trouble again and again and learn nothing from it.”
― Saint X
― Saint X
“The diary was a slippery thing, weaving together confession with self-delusion. No--the weaving metaphor isn't right. That suggests truth and distortion are strands and, therefore, separable. I think it would be more accurate to say that truth and untruth were present in Alison's diary as hydrogen or oxygen are present in water. The challenge is not one of separation--for what use are either hydrogen or oxygen in understanding the nature of water?--but of understanding these moments without attempting to separate them. I had to find a way to understand how truth and untruth make each other.”
― Saint X
― Saint X
“What if you pared yourself down to one essential part? What would that one grain be? It occurred to me that I have no freaking idea.”
― Saint X
― Saint X
“The best thing she ever did was to behave in front of her children. If all she could give them was to contain the dark, squalid rooms within her, then that is enough. If to other people it seems like very little, well, she knows that it is everything. She has freed them from a burden they do not even know exits, that of being tormented by a deep, unsolvable ache for all the wrong things.”
― Saint X
― Saint X
Heather’s 2025 Year in Books
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