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“You alone are responsible for yourself and your life. And if you just do what you’ve always done, you’ll just get what you’ve always got.”
― The End of Loneliness
― The End of Loneliness
“Maybe happy now, happy for a moment, is all we really get. Happy forever seems a shitload to ask in a world on fire.”
― The Women
― The Women
“Best education you can get,” he said. “See through someone else’s eyes and you understand more of everything.”
― All the Colors of the Dark
― All the Colors of the Dark
“And we hate people for making mistakes so much more than we love them for doing good that the easiest way to live is to do nothing, say nothing, and love no one.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Kim closes her eyes and nods. Men don't know, she things, they don't know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too. Men don't know how the touch of a hand against the back of your neck can feel like a request, not a gesture of love, how emotional issues become too cumbersome to deal with, how their love for you is too much sometimes, just too much. Kim sometimes thinks that women practice being mothers on men until they become actual mothers, leaving behind a kind of vacancy.”
― The Night She Disappeared
― The Night She Disappeared
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