“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
“No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
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