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Sometimes I cried but then that began to feel productive, like catharsis, and so I stopped mid-gape and just lay there.
“Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.”
― Actors Anonymous: A Novel
― Actors Anonymous: A Novel
“And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Life, he says, doesn’t have to be so bad all the time. We don’t have to be anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best we can.”
― Where Things Come Back
― Where Things Come Back
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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