“Sometimes we hold on to painful things, I think, because letting them go feels like letting go of the person who gave them to us.”
“I will concede,” I said, “that you said a pretty mean thing to your sister. But you’ve spent fifteen years saying mean things to me and I have loved you every second of them anyway.”
― An Academic Affair
― An Academic Affair
“pink and fluffy and nothing bad ever happens. Eucatastrophe is joy poignant as grief. The joy cannot be truly felt in a world where the grief isn’t possible.”
― An Academic Affair
― An Academic Affair
“Eucatastrophe is joy poignant as grief. The joy cannot be truly felt in a world where the grief isn’t possible.” “And the catastrophe is the narrative fork between the joy and the grief.”
― An Academic Affair
― An Academic Affair
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