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In that simple sentence, “You’re the authority,” Stone had given Fat back his soul. The soul which Gloria, with her hideous malignant psychological death-game, had taken away. They—note the “they”—paid Dr. Stone to figure out what had
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“People like to tell me I’m looking ‘well’ but there are late hours alone when my heart is an open wound and I wonder if the pain will ever stop brimming fresh.”
― The Outrun
― The Outrun
“For as many times as the horrible thing happens, a thousand times in every day the horrible thing passes us by.”
― These Precious Days: Essays
― These Precious Days: Essays
“In grandiose moments, high on fresh air and freedom on the hill, I study my personal geology.
My body is a continent. Forces are at work in the night. A bruxist, I grind my teeth in my sleep, like tectonic plates. When I blink the sun flickers, my breath pushes the clouds across the sky and the waves roll into the shore in time with my beating heart. Lightning strikes every time I sneeze, and when I orgasm, there's an earthquake. The islands' headlands rise above the sea, like my limbs in the bathtub, my freckles are famous landmarks and my tears rivers. My lovers are tectonic plates and stone cathedrals.”
― The Outrun
My body is a continent. Forces are at work in the night. A bruxist, I grind my teeth in my sleep, like tectonic plates. When I blink the sun flickers, my breath pushes the clouds across the sky and the waves roll into the shore in time with my beating heart. Lightning strikes every time I sneeze, and when I orgasm, there's an earthquake. The islands' headlands rise above the sea, like my limbs in the bathtub, my freckles are famous landmarks and my tears rivers. My lovers are tectonic plates and stone cathedrals.”
― The Outrun
“Drinking solves nothing. Afterwards, the problems are still there.”
― The Outrun
― The Outrun
“But people’s ability to take personal responsibility is shaped by their circumstances. People cannot take responsibility if they cannot control what happens to them.”
― The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
― The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
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