Jacob Stephen
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“I've forgotten what gets revealed right after you break up with someone.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“It can be really exasperating to look back at your past. What’s the matter with you? I want to ask her, my younger self, shaking her shoulder. If I did that, she would probably cry. Maybe I would cry, too.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“For those forty-five minutes I surrendered to wonder. It was such a relief to give up the need to be sure about things.”
― Agatha of Little Neon
― Agatha of Little Neon
“I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time--the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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