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And then in 1993 his wife, Carol, died, suddenly, of a brain tumor. Their children were two and five. He was left overwhelmed with grief. In I Am a Strange Loop he consoles himself with the thought that she lived on in his brain: “I believe
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“I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you”
― The Chaos of Stars
― The Chaos of Stars
“I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered
if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”
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if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”
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“There is a lot to be said about pinning things to the earth so they don't follow us around. There is a lot to be said for laying them to rest,”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
― Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true,
only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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