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“Sometimes it felt like the part of me that my mother knew disappeared when she did. Because there wasn’t anyone else who saw it, it just faded away.”
― Fault Lines
― Fault Lines
“What are we, apart from the stories we tell ourselves and other people?”
― Fault Lines
― Fault Lines
“I look nearly the same as I do now, just happier. What an unforgivable thing to say, when my life now is the way it is. Maybe not happier exactly, just as if my edges haven’t been so finely polished. Less demure, less taut. Freer.”
― Fault Lines
― Fault Lines
“On occasion, my whole life can feel like a pileup of unintended consequences.”
― Fault Lines
― Fault Lines
“There are thirty-seven million of us in Tokyo alone-it has the effect of making it damn clear just how unimportant you are. Which is heartbreaking or relaxing, depending on how you look at it.”
― Fault Lines
― Fault Lines
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