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“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
― Meditations in an Emergency
“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
― Meditations in an Emergency
“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
“Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under
them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
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