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“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Why is the measure of love loss?”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I wasn’t floating on my little raft in the present; there were bridges that led over to solid ground. Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.
Literature is common ground. It is ground not managed wholly by commercial interests, nor can it be strip-mined like popular culture—exploit the new thing then move on.
There’s a lot of talk about the tame world versus the wild world. It is not only a wild nature that we need as human beings; it is the untamed open space of our imaginations.
Reading is where the wild things are.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Literature is common ground. It is ground not managed wholly by commercial interests, nor can it be strip-mined like popular culture—exploit the new thing then move on.
There’s a lot of talk about the tame world versus the wild world. It is not only a wild nature that we need as human beings; it is the untamed open space of our imaginations.
Reading is where the wild things are.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
e ♡’s 2024 Year in Books
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