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It was a shame that Gregor’s idea would never see the light of day. But it was better that their lives remained uninterrupted by sentient flora.
“Each meal you eat is poison, because the food is just moving you through the world and the end of your time in it. Dinner is poison, and lunch. Brunch and eleveneses and both afternoon and bedtime snacks are poison, and so is breakfast the next morning, all these meals bringing us closer and closer to death.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide which is worse, coming up against the limitations of their souls or the limitations of my love.”
― Natural Beauty
― Natural Beauty
“We must try, all of us, a lot of the time, our best, and we must keep trying. We do not understand anything but we should try our best to understand each other.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“In the classical music field, it’s still more permissible for women to be mediocre than it is for them to be fat.”
― Natural Beauty
― Natural Beauty
“It was a familiar feeling, to be hurrying someplace without really knowing what is going on. When I was a child, this happened all the time, because when you are a child, nothing is your business, and you are constantly being yanked one place or another with no satisfying explanation provided by the adults doing the yanking, and so you soon get used to being in a constant state of bewilderment.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
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