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But she’d been feeling lonely. And though she’d studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe, it was good to see him.
“For me, the process of embodying confidence was less about convincing myself of my own worth and more about rejecting and unlearning what society had hammered into me.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
“I’m gettin’ tired way past where sleep rests me.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“He is not in the habit of explaining himself. He is not in the habit of discussing his successes. But whenever good fortune has called on him, he has been there, planted on the threshold, ready to fling open the door to her timid scratch on the wood.”
― Bring Up the Bodies
― Bring Up the Bodies
“I sometimes think of people’s personalities as the negative space around their insecurities. Afraid of intimacy? Cultivate aloofness. Feel invisible? Laugh loud and often. Drink too much? Play the gregarious basket case. Hate your body? Slash and burn others so you can climb up the pile. We construct elaborate palaces to hide our vulnerabilities, often growing into caricatures of what we fear. The goal is to move through the world without anyone knowing quite where to dig a thumb. It’s a survival instinct. When people know how to hurt you, they know how to control you. But”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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