Amanda Redondo
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And I do wonder why I’ve spent all this time feeling depressed about the end of something that wasn’t working anyway.
“loved her for her courage and slow-burning fury.”
― Machines Like Me
― Machines Like Me
“Perhaps I had idealized her in my mind at the instant that we passed each other, to the point where even if I actually saw her again I wouldn’t recognize her? (I think the last possibility is the most likely.)”
― First Person Singular: Stories
― First Person Singular: Stories
“era bom conversar com ela desse jeito, de verdade, sem ficar pastorando as palavras, tinham um som diferente quando eram iguais às palavras de dentro de mim.”
― A palavra que resta
― A palavra que resta
“When I couldn’t get that sensation in the real world, I would quietly let my memory of those feelings awaken inside me. In this way, memory became one of my most valued emotional tools, a means of survival, even.”
― First Person Singular: Stories
― First Person Singular: Stories
“What I can say is that it was music that reached to the deep recesses of my soul, all the way down to the very core. I was certain that kind of music existed in the world—music that made you feel like something in the very structure of your body had been reconfigured, ever so slightly, now that you’d experienced it.”
― First Person Singular: Stories
― First Person Singular: Stories
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