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He has made peace with the idea that part of life is facing your failures, and sometimes those failures are people you once loved.
“Answers came when they damn well wanted to come, which was sometimes not at all. Answers were, in that respect, like cats.”
― On Earth as It Is on Television
― On Earth as It Is on Television
“She moves as if to get closer, though it hardly feels possible. She’ll climb inside me. She’ll burrow under my skin.”
― Strict Confidence
― Strict Confidence
“I think again how unprepared we are for illness and old age. How we trundle toward it unthinkingly, like lemmings toward the edge of a cliff. The tiny humans we coo over at the start of their lives, we shudder to look upon at the end.”
― The Burning Girls
― The Burning Girls
“It reminded me of a bad breakup, when you wake up devastated the next morning and realize that the only person who could possibly offer you comfort is the one person you just agreed never to speak to again.”
― Competitive Grieving
― Competitive Grieving
“you have always believed that pity is the most offensive of feelings. Pity is destruction wearing a mask of sympathy.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
Leslie’s 2025 Year in Books
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