Lizzie
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
“I'd spent so much of my finite time on earth thinking small thoughts, feeling small feelings, walking under doors into unoccupied rooms. How many hours did I spend online, re-watching inane videos, scrutinising listings for houses I would never buy, clicking over to check for hasty e-mails from people I didn't care about? How much of myself, how many words, feelings, and actions, had I forcefully contained? I'd angled myself away from myself, by a fraction of a degree, but after so many years, finding my way back to myself required a plane.”
― Here I Am
― Here I Am
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“There weren't words for it. It was like trying to photograph a sunset or telling the story of a dream dreamt, a private intensity, and attempts at its reproduction could only be met with a shrug.”
― The Story of Forgetting
― The Story of Forgetting
“She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
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