The meaning of life is still, as it was, simply other people. When we care for each other, we are always in a place that matters.
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“He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach.”
― Euphoria
― Euphoria
“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.”
― Euphoria
― Euphoria
“Everyone wants you here. We have a saying in Farsi. It translates ‘your place was empty.’ We say it when we miss somebody."
I sniffed.
"Your place was empty before. But this is your family. You belong here.”
― Darius the Great Is Not Okay
I sniffed.
"Your place was empty before. But this is your family. You belong here.”
― Darius the Great Is Not Okay
“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“Even on this most terrible days, even when the worst of us are all we can think of, I am proud to be a human.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
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