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"Hmm not that far in but I don’t think I enjoy books like this about imagined famous people and their lives, I know there’s a couple others I’ve tried and can’t think of their titles but I’d rather read proper non-fiction I think… also assumed I was easily halfway so maybe zzz" — 11 hours, 29 min ago
"Hmm not that far in but I don’t think I enjoy books like this about imagined famous people and their lives, I know there’s a couple others I’ve tried and can’t think of their titles but I’d rather read proper non-fiction I think… also assumed I was easily halfway so maybe zzz" — 11 hours, 29 min ago
His T-shirt rides up, exposing the waist she used to hold when he was tiny and wriggly, just learning to sit up, to bounce, to walk. She’d thought motherhood was so boring at the time, so unrewarding, the hours and hours dedicated to the
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“Numbers and maps tell horror stories, but the stories of deepest horror are perhaps those for which there are no numbers, no maps, no possible accountability, no words ever written or spoken.”
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
“how do you explain that it is never inspiration that drives you to tell a story, but rather a combination of anger and clarity? How do you say: No, we do not find inspiration here, but we find a country that is as beautiful as it is broken, and we are somehow now part of it, so we are also broken with it, and feel ashamed, confused, and sometimes hopeless, and are trying to figure out how to do something about all that.”
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us — by taking everything.”
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
“And then I think I don't need to write anything down ever again. Nothing's gone, not really. Everything that's ever happened has left its little wound.”
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
“I remember reading somewhere that there are only two possible prayers: “help me” and “thank you.” “Thank you,” I say to the universe, before I fall asleep.”
― Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
― Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
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