“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.”
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“It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.”
― Lectures to My Students
― Lectures to My Students
“Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?”
― The Terror
― The Terror
“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Circe
― Circe
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