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Sula

by Toni Morrison

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk

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The amount of sleep I get on Christmas Eve seems to be steadily decreasing each year, probably because each year my average falling-asleep time gets steadily later, probably because I’m an Internet-addicted idiot.

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Courtney’s Quotes

“Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: philosophy, tyler-durden

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“There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

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“When you're twenty-four," Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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“Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

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