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“But no matter who stays
or who walked away,
remember all the things
they taught you.”
― All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living
or who walked away,
remember all the things
they taught you.”
― All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living
“It took me many years to realize that it’s hard to live in this world. I don’t mean the mechanics of living, because for most of us, our hearts will beat, our lungs will take in oxygen, without us doing anything at all to tell them to. For most of us, mechanically, physically, it’s harder to die than it is to live. But still we try to die. We drive too fast down winding roads, we have sex with strangers without wearing protection, we drink, we use drugs. We try to squeeze a little more life out of our lives. It’s natural to want to do that. But to be alive in the world, every day, as we are given more and more and more, as the nature of “what we can handle” changes and our methods for how we handle it change, too, that’s something of a miracle.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“I think of my parents, not because I miss them, but because sometimes you see a black person above the age of fifty walking down the street, and you just know that they have seen some shit. You know that they are masters of the double consciousness, of the discreet management of fury under the tight surveillance and casual violence of the outside world. You know that they said thank you as they bled, and that despite the roaches and the instant oatmeal and the bruise on your face, you are still luckier than they have ever been, such that losing a bottom-tier job in publishing is not only ridiculous but offensive.”
― Luster
― Luster
“I, myself, had a very complicated relationship with emptiness, blankness, nothingness. Sometimes I wanted only to fill it, frightened that if I didn’t it would eat me alive or kill me. But sometimes I longed for total annihilation in it—a beautiful, silent erasure. A desire to be vanished.”
― The Pisces
― The Pisces
“People, it turned out, were mostly fine with being victimized in small doses. In fact, they seemed to expect a certain amount of deception, allowed for a tolerable margin of manipulation in their relationships.”
― The Guest
― The Guest
Eva’s 2025 Year in Books
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Comics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Horror, Manga, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, Thriller, technology, essays, race, african-literature, and japan
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