“The earth holds things in its body. In clay. In ice. The real. The unreal. Time. Each other. All the chances we had.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“It took more than one woman to do things differently. It took a world of them.”
― A Woman Is No Man
― A Woman Is No Man
“I pretended everything would be okay because it seemed impossible to always be saying goodbye.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“Normal people say, I can’t imagine feeling so bad I’d genuinely want to die. I do not try and explain that it isn’t that you want to die. It is that you know you are not supposed to be alive, feeling a tiredness that powders your bones, a tiredness with so much fear. The unnatural fact of living is something you must eventually fix.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“And I won't want to stop feeling the way I do. I don't want to give up knowing, in this very visceral way, what I know about people and what they can do to you. About countries and what they can do to you. I don't want ever to be wholly relaxed, wholly at home, in a world of flowing fresh water built on the parched pain of others. The world itches, and so it should.”
― A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
― A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
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