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“La gente triste no tiene piedad.”
― Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
― Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
“I'm me," she whispered. "Me"
Nel didn't know quite what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exactly what she meant.
"I'm me. I'm not their daughter. I'm not Nel. I'm me. Me."
Every time she said the word me there was a gathering in her like power, like joy, like fear. Back in bed with her discovery, she stared out the window at the dark leaves of the horse chestnut.
"Me," she murmured. And then, sinking deeper into the quilts, "I want... I want to be... wonderful. Oh, Jesus, make me wonderful.”
― Sula
Nel didn't know quite what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exactly what she meant.
"I'm me. I'm not their daughter. I'm not Nel. I'm me. Me."
Every time she said the word me there was a gathering in her like power, like joy, like fear. Back in bed with her discovery, she stared out the window at the dark leaves of the horse chestnut.
"Me," she murmured. And then, sinking deeper into the quilts, "I want... I want to be... wonderful. Oh, Jesus, make me wonderful.”
― Sula
“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and my life, as I write this, is vital.”
― The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
― The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“I’ll rewrite this whole life and this time there’ll be so much love,
you won’t be able to see beyond it.”
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you won’t be able to see beyond it.”
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“[I]f you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised. You will always be missing another place, and no national logic will ever again seem fully obvious to you.”
― Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years
― Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years
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