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“This self was not really you, it didn't sufficiently encompass what you care about or what you want to say. Because at the end of the day, you are uniquely ill-equipped to convey to the world what you care about or what you want to say.”
― The Guest Lecture
― The Guest Lecture
“She never thought of herself as living in a city full of children, but maybe every city and every neighborhood is full of children when you’ve lost your own.”
― The School for Good Mothers
― The School for Good Mothers
“Even an imagined togetherness beats being alone.”
― The Guest Lecture
― The Guest Lecture
“Now the box is open, reality spills out, and there's no way to stuff it back in. Judgment has been meted out, the first sentence handed down, first of many because once this trial gets going there is no going back. The proceedings are irreversible, the stakes existential, the accusations keep piling up, the prosecution is relentless, the prosecution never rests, the defense never rests, nobody in this whole damn place ever rests.”
― The Guest Lecture
― The Guest Lecture
“Perhaps the real revelation is simply that life has caught up with you. All this time, when you thought you were fooling everyone, that was only because no one was paying attention. But eventually the world does pay attention, and suddenly it is you who are on trial, not the world but you. The trial you'd managed to put off for years is finally underway and you see, now, that you are not the plaintiff, as you'd always assumed, but the defendant, not the accuser but the accused.”
― The Guest Lecture
― The Guest Lecture
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