“Because every day when I wake up, the clouds gather, a little darker each day, and I feel less and less equipped to do anything about them. To go anywhere. To make a change. To speak more than the occasional sentence. So I go to the bookstores. I do not want to speak and I do not want to be spoken to. I find it hurts my ears. My head. My skin. And people are quiet in bookstores. I like the anonymous, mute companionship of my fellow browsers.”
― Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
― Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
“Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.”
― The Dog Stars
― The Dog Stars
“How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.”
― The Dog Stars
― The Dog Stars
“So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.”
― We Are Not Ourselves
― We Are Not Ourselves
“We are all of us - well, with the exception of people who have just fallen in love and those lucky demented few who see life's glass as three quarters full - we are just getting by.”
― Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
― Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
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