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“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Illness is a story told in the past tense.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“You can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really—just like touching someone else’s body isn’t the same as having someone else’s body.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“The truth is, I often have trouble with social situations; it’s as though everyone is playing an elaborate game with complex rules they all know, but I’m always playing for the first time.”
― The Maid
― The Maid
“I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like."
"That's what life is like?" I was trying to get his meaning.
"Yeah. It rhymes, but not in the way you expect.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
"That's what life is like?" I was trying to get his meaning.
"Yeah. It rhymes, but not in the way you expect.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
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