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.
“You know how when someone dies, all anyone cares about is how? Somehow the moment that takes them out is more interesting than decades worth of life and accomplishments and living. I hated it.”
― Say You'll Remember Me
― Say You'll Remember Me
“Women got that feeling about him, that funny one we all get when we know something isn’t right, but we don’t know how to”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“Maybe that’s the last thing we forget. Or we never forget it at all. Not really. We lose the words to say it. We lose the ability to show it. But we never lose the ability to feel it or recognize it when we see it. Love is the brightest color in a gray world.”
― Say You'll Remember Me
― Say You'll Remember Me
“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
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