“no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem. But you can’t figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can’t be sure, you know?”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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