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change. It follows that if you believe at fifty what you believed at fifteen, then you have not lived—or have denied the reality of your life.
“a place in the present. This, as they say, is where my roots are. The trick is in reattaching.”
― Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
― Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“I HOLD
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
―
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
―
“love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And I could no longer predict where I would find my heroes.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“began to intuit dimly why people drank when they went dancing, and it occurred to me that maybe the reason preschool had felt the way it had was that one had had to go through the whole thing sober.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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