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Emmi Hackbarth
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Deep Cuts
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Instead of sleeping that night I revised my end of the conversation in my head over and over, a lifelong pastime I always rationalized as productive since the lessons could apply to future interactions, though that never seemed to happen.
“Sometimes, in your lap, I would press my hand against your chest so that I could feel the center of you—your heartwood, your innermost substance, like the core of a tree that keeps it standing.”
― Heartwood
― Heartwood
“Heavy Metal Drummer” (Wilco) “Knocked Up” (Kings of Leon) “All I Need” (Radiohead) “Tugboat” (Galaxie 500) “Disarm” (Smashing Pumpkins) “Ziggy Stardust” (Bowie) “Little Red Corvette” (Prince)”
― Lo Fi
― Lo Fi
“She stood up from the deep chair and I noticed she straightened her legs a bit slowly. How awful,”
― Deep Cuts
― Deep Cuts
“People who said they were separated, not divorced, were like people who insisted that a tomato was a fruit, not a vegetable: technically correct, but on shaky ground. No one ate tomato ice-cream.”
― You Are Here
― You Are Here
“all tell you to move forward, but where exactly is forward? There’s no other place we can go. To face the past is to momentarily turn your back on what is now. And when you do that, you miss so damn much.”
― All the Colors of the Dark
― All the Colors of the Dark
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