Amelia McCarthy

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

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But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?

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“I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive'…but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script

tags: equality, feminism, idolizing, male-insecurity, muse, peace-of-mind

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“She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life: Stories