Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.
“I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.”
― Nine Stories
― Nine Stories
“We spend our lives trying to figure out how to pay back the debt of being. And to whom we might pay it.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Time was a wave, almost cruel in its relentlessness.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
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