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“Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”
― The First Bad Man
― The First Bad Man
“I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.”
― Enduring Love
― Enduring Love
“Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.”
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
“Everything was always something, but something—and here was the rub—could never be everything.”
― To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
― To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
“I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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