We are brought up in the ethic that others, any others, all others, are by definition more interesting than ourselves;
“It meant sooner or later I was going to lose you again. No matter how deformed I felt, or how hobbled I was by your absence, with time I would develop the right callus to get on with life and you would slip into the background like a hand on someone’s leg that they feel less and less the longer it stays there.”
― This Thing Between Us
― This Thing Between Us
“I'm sorry. For the things that still need to be written out”
― This Thing Between Us
― This Thing Between Us
“You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us.”
― This Thing Between Us
― This Thing Between Us
“Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
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