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“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've just been dredged from the bottom of a lake. Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your frowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“You have no idea what it is like to watch two blind people fighting. Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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