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“i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls.”
― Bed
― Bed
“Articulation! There, by Joe, was MY absolute, if I could be said to have one. At any rate, it is the only thing I can think of about which I ever had, with any frequency at all, the feelings one usually has for one's absolutes. To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.”
― The End of the Road
― The End of the Road
“It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
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