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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
“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
“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
“Being an adult meant watching many possible versions of yourself whittle into just one.”
― Splinters
― Splinters
“I sat there on the starched sheets holding my baby, and my mother held me, and I cried uncontrollably, because I finally understood how much she loved me, and I could hardly stand the grace of it.”
― Splinters
― Splinters
“Ranko was hosting a picnic the next day and he invited me along. And that was it, I was lost. So much of sex is in the nose. I do believe that. And he was in love with me too.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
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