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“No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.”
― Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
― Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
“Humans change over time.
I certainly have. I’ve aged and become grumpy.”
― People From My Neighbourhood
I certainly have. I’ve aged and become grumpy.”
― People From My Neighbourhood
“I feel simultaneously intensely insignificant and hyperaware of how important everyone is.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“You never live with a woman, you live inside of her, I overheard my father say to my brother once, and it was, indeed, as if, when peering into the mirror, you were blinking out through her thickly fringed eyes.”
― Her Body and Other Parties
― Her Body and Other Parties
“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
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