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What if I had the entirety of human knowledge and experience at my fingertips and were suddenly plunged into the Dark Ages?
“who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It’s the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding. Maybe I’ve learned it’s a mistake to reveal her at all.”
― The Woman Upstairs
― The Woman Upstairs
“he was playing on the climbing structure by himself—or “by his own,” as the children sometimes charmingly put it.”
― The Woman Upstairs
― The Woman Upstairs
“It’s the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly, or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they’re lying to you, but as often because they’re lying to themselves.”
― The Woman Upstairs
― The Woman Upstairs
“Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn’t that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying—valiantly, fruitlessly—to eradicate.”
― The Woman Upstairs
― The Woman Upstairs
“The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people’s. I see what he means, and because I’ve learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that’s always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained,”
― The Woman Upstairs
― The Woman Upstairs
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