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“Loss keeps going, you know? It doesn’t just stop with what was taken from you. It grabs new things all the time. You think you’re up against missing the memories, all that happened, but Christ if you don’t miss all that didn’t happen even more.”
― Take What You Can Carry
― Take What You Can Carry
“Burning books about things you do not like or understand does not mean those things no longer exist.”
― The Librarian of Burned Books
― The Librarian of Burned Books
“Instinct. That elusive center an overthinker tends to dart around. Now, recalling their start, she remembers that initial pull to him. Not just attraction, though that was there as well. But a whole-being pull. Cells moving. Mind consumed.”
― Take What You Can Carry
― Take What You Can Carry
“think of myself as being on a mission to recover the truest version of myself, and as being in recovery from long exposure to a sick society that actively wants to destroy all that is good about me.”
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
“The death of a parent, he wrote, “despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean’s bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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