Lauren
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I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.
“I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”
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“Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.”
― Educated
― Educated
“He didn't belong to you...You keep talking as if he belonged to you, just because you were his mother, but he didn't.
He didn't belong to anybody but himself.”
― The Death of Vivek Oji
He didn't belong to anybody but himself.”
― The Death of Vivek Oji
“Turns out the sadness that silence from the person you love brings can be temporarily erased by the dull thrill of attention from strangers.”
― Queenie
― Queenie
“Trees're always a relief, after people.”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green
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