Therése
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""Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think."" — Jun 19, 2016 08:40AM
""Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think."" — Jun 19, 2016 08:40AM
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""I needed to make sure she understood the way I understood. my mother said it was lie a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end."" — May 13, 2016 09:39PM
""I needed to make sure she understood the way I understood. my mother said it was lie a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end."" — May 13, 2016 09:39PM
“Two hungry people should never make friends. If they do, they eat each other up. It is the same with one person who is hungry and another who is full: they cannot be real, real friends because the hungry one will eat the full one. You understand?”
― The Icarus Girl
― The Icarus Girl
“...& she, armed with both & abandoning the joys of reason that had meant so much to her as well as me, made a suitably advantageous marriage with an ironmonger with a face like an anvil & a soul like a slag, & so I never saw her freckles fade, her auburn hair dull, never had to watch our love turn to that non-colour, white.”
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
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