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You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either hate them or love them, but that’s not how people are.
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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“In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
― Lucky
― Lucky
“The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”
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