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I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can’t imagine ever running out of things to say.
“Of course it is difficult. You are creating a creature with a soul, my friend says.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“How is that even possible?” the philosopher says. “He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever met.” She knows. She knows. So it begs the question, doesn’t it? Did she unkind and ungood and untrue him?”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“You've learned a new rule and it's simple: don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from.
But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother, and you'll see that laer and be very, very proud.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother, and you'll see that laer and be very, very proud.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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