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"Idk how else to explain it but this feels like a winter book (slow, pensive, detailed, meandering) and I am in a summer mood (fast-paced, spontaneous, whimsical) so I’m struggling" — May 05, 2026 10:14AM
"Idk how else to explain it but this feels like a winter book (slow, pensive, detailed, meandering) and I am in a summer mood (fast-paced, spontaneous, whimsical) so I’m struggling" — May 05, 2026 10:14AM
“The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on. We make ourselves and in so doing are the gods of the small universe of self and the large world of repercussions.”
― The Faraway Nearby
― The Faraway Nearby
“That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“People said that everyone was born alone and everyone would die alone, but they were wrong. When someone was born, they brought so many people with them, generations of people zipped into the marrow of their tiny bones.”
― All Adults Here
― All Adults Here
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