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up. But she could barely remember any specifics of the dreams, only a submerged sense of urgency, the knowledge that there was a task that she was failing at, that she would always fail at.
“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― L'Étranger
― L'Étranger
“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
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