Keri Hurst
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All my feelings and experiences were in one sense extremely intense, and in another sense completely trivial, because none of my decisions seemed to have any consequences, and nothing about my life—the job, the apartment, the desires, the
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“So what's the secret to staying together?" I asked her. "Be nice?" she offered. I laughed, but that may be it, the way a secret to losing weight is to eat less. Be nice. Don't leave. That's all.”
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
“Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.”
― When You Reach Me
― When You Reach Me
“I used to think...,' I trail off. 'I used to think life would go like this: You get bashed around a bit, fuck up, lose people, and in the process figure out what really matters. But now...'
He sips from my water glass.
'It's more like figuring out that your life was never even about you, to begin with. You're not the hero. You're just someone in the cast.”
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He sips from my water glass.
'It's more like figuring out that your life was never even about you, to begin with. You're not the hero. You're just someone in the cast.”
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“I never went to his funeral. Few people did. Why would they? But sometimes I can't help but feel that I should have gone. Like it would have made something I cannot name not so lonely. In my own loneliness, I thought a lot about that, about if I should have gone.”
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“Yes, Montaigne,' I said, more firmly. 'Montaigne believed there was such a diversity of humans in the world - humans with different needs, different wants, different ways of being, different ways of experiencing reality - that there must also be a diversity of happiness. That happiness was, in other words, subjective, not objective. There is no universal human nature, and so there is also no universal human happiness. There is only what we each find.”
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