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“but I guided you to those I thought you needed. Abe- the thing that used to be Abe--he guided your father and grandfather to the Moments that hurt most."
"It all hurt, Issa." Tears squeeze from my eyes from the effort of holding in the screams of pain. I focus on the meagre relief the mist brings my sizzling skin. "The happy memories hurt just as bad, maybe worse."
She studies me. "I know. But that kind of pain teaches you something different, June.”
― A Million Junes
"It all hurt, Issa." Tears squeeze from my eyes from the effort of holding in the screams of pain. I focus on the meagre relief the mist brings my sizzling skin. "The happy memories hurt just as bad, maybe worse."
She studies me. "I know. But that kind of pain teaches you something different, June.”
― A Million Junes
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
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“I don't really know,' I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true. It sounded true, and I recognized it, the way you recognize some nondescript person that's been hanging around your door for ages and then suddenly comes up and introduces himself as your real father and looks exactly like you, so you know he really is your father, and the person you thought all your life was your father is a sham.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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