“One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways pain is the opposite of language.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“To be alive is to be missing.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“He puts his claw against the divider. “Fist my bump.”
“Fist-bump. It’s just ‘fist-bump.’”
“Understand.”
― Project Hail Mary
“Fist-bump. It’s just ‘fist-bump.’”
“Understand.”
― Project Hail Mary
“The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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