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He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
“He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”
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“Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.”
― Crush
― Crush
“You wanted to think of yourself as someone who did these kinds of things.
You wanted to be in love
and he happened to get in the way.”
― Crush
You wanted to be in love
and he happened to get in the way.”
― Crush
“On Saturday nights I would sit by the phone in the lobby, waiting for Naoko to call. Most of the others were out on Saturday nights, so the lobby was usually deserted. I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
Carissa’s 2024 Year in Books
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