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“But hey, that’s humanity! It’s silly and pointless, aside from punctuations of brightness afforded by love and friendship.”
― Stop Me If You've Heard This One
― Stop Me If You've Heard This One
“But I’m starting to think Thoreau might have been full of shit. If we aren’t living for others, maybe we aren’t really living.”
― So Far Gone
― So Far Gone
“He’s been told that his mentals are “treatment-resistant,” which sounds a lot like “noncompliant” heart disease or “won’t play ball” multiple sclerosis.”
― Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
― Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
“The thing about being a woman, a mother, a wife, was that if you wanted to be any more than those things you had to hire another wife. Somebody had to be the wife in a family. Rich women got to pay somebody else to be them—a stunt double to make it look like they were doing everything well when, in fact, they were doing only the fun parts.”
― Colored Television
― Colored Television
“I have a fear in me. Something I hope isn't true. It is that the holes inside his parents that drove them into each other's arms as well as into making art are also in his body somehow. Like he carries a trace of our sadness and pain even as he will become a completely different person.”
― Reading the Waves: A Memoir
― Reading the Waves: A Memoir
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