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Fabiola Barral
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“Our favorite stories can be like lovers. Make sense to me, we ask them. Make sense of me. Here, fix these hurting parts. And stories do, sometimes better than our lovers.”
― Abandon Me: Memoirs
― Abandon Me: Memoirs
“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Normal People
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Normal People
“What matters is the transformative power of metaphor and the stories we tell ourselves about the arc and meaning of our lives.”
― Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
― Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
“Much of what I love about literature is also what I love about the Tarot - archetypes at play, hidden forces, secrets brought to light. When I bought the deck, it was for the same reason I bought the car: I felt too much like a character in a novel, buffeted by cruel turns of fate. I wanted to feel powerful in the face of my fate. I wanted to look over the top of my life and see what was coming. I wanted to be the main character of this story, and its author. And if I were writing a novel about someone like me, this is exactly what would lead him astray.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
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