“يبدو الشعور بالذنب وكأنه الشعور الذي يوحّد الأمهات على اختلافهن .”
― كيف تلتئم: عن الأمومة وأشباحها
― كيف تلتئم: عن الأمومة وأشباحها
“All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I don’t know,” he says. “I guess so. In space, everything has its relative position. Space is an entity, right, but also limitless. It’s less dense the farther out you go, but you can always keep going. There’s no definitive border between the start and the end. We’ll never fully understand or know it. We can’t.” “You don’t think?” “Dark matter makes up the majority of all matter, and it’s still a mystery.” “Dark matter?” “It’s invisible. It’s all the extra mass we can’t see that makes the formation of galaxies and the rotational velocities of stars around galaxies mathematically possible.” “I’m glad we don’t know everything.”
― I’m Thinking of Ending Things
― I’m Thinking of Ending Things
“It’s amazing that relationships can form and last under the constraints of never fully knowing. Never knowing for sure what the other person is thinking. Never knowing for sure who a person is.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Now it's my heart. I'm angry with it. The constant beating. We're wired to be unaware of it, so why am I aware of it now? Why is the beating making me angry? Because I don't have a choice. When you become aware of your heart, you want it to stop beating. You need a break from the constant rhythm, a rest. We all need a rest.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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