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I’m the new popular girl in school now. Everyone’s carrying me around the dance floor chanting my name. She puts her phone
“By the time we know ourselves, we are already. That is the problem of childhood. It takes you a couple of years to grow up, to be conscious, to make decisions, and by then it's already too late, it's just a race against those fateful years.”
― The Coin
― The Coin
“It’s not exactly a liberation, getting what you secretly wanted.”
― The New Me
― The New Me
“It’s like sucking on a rock and pretending it’s candy, talking to this guy.”
― The New Me
― The New Me
“It seems unbelievable that a single decision, a fucking intangible thought, could so violently upset the flesh-and-bone scaffolding of daily life, the steady rhythm of the hours, the predictable, material color of the landscapes that give us nourishment and company.”
― Boulder
― Boulder
“She moved her finger on the screen to the third row, the second man. Dark curly hair, a long slit of a mouth. Hair slicked and parted down the middle. A skinny, floppy bow tie.
What had been so special about hm? Fiona didn't know what she'd expected, but something more than this. Ranko Novak was worth seventy years of devotion. Ranko Novak was irreplaceable, a hole at the center of Nora's universe. And this was it? A face, two eyes, two ears.
Well, try telling that to someone in love.”
― The Great Believers
What had been so special about hm? Fiona didn't know what she'd expected, but something more than this. Ranko Novak was worth seventy years of devotion. Ranko Novak was irreplaceable, a hole at the center of Nora's universe. And this was it? A face, two eyes, two ears.
Well, try telling that to someone in love.”
― The Great Believers
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