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“There are times when it is entirely safe to show one’s vulnerability, to roll over and reveal the soft underbelly beneath. But there are other times when pain must be borne without a murmur, when the pain is so consuming that if you give in to it, even in the slightest, you have lost everything.”
― A Curious Beginning
― A Curious Beginning
“Do objects that are loved know that they are loved? Did Prince know somehow that a little girl had loved him with the intensity that only a small child can muster?”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“Sometimes I wonder if I have really been the same person my whole life. I stare at the picture, and think: Is that really me? I have this bizarre feeling like I was a different person at every other stage of my life. I feel so removed from myself then.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“But perhaps skin and bones have a little memory to them, even after the soul is gone to greater things. And the bones in the museum had spent decade after decade marinating in my uncle’s fierce, befuddled kindness.”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“start to picture a world where Jesus had been killed using a different murder device. I picture little ceramic guillotine figurines. I imagine miniature nooses hung above children’s beds. Electric chair necklaces and earrings.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
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