“One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways pain is the opposite of language.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Your now is not your forever.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
Akarsh’s 2025 Year in Books
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