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Each one an attempt—an immense leap of an attempt—to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Conor held tightly onto his mother.
And by doing so, he could finally let her go.”
― A Monster Calls
And by doing so, he could finally let her go.”
― A Monster Calls
“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on the side of the road, and I told myself I didn't have to get into that car, that my moment of choice was not whether to have the thought, but whether to be carried away by it.
And then I got in the car.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
And then I got in the car.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
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