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“Get some sleep,” Nathenek said. “It will get better. All you can do right now is focus on the positive. Choose how to lead your life. The memories will never be gone completely; they will always be there inside of you. But they will fade,
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Words to live by.
“In most cases, the moment of midlife crisis inception isn’t obvious. It comes on slowly like a summer head cold;”
― Midmen: The Modern Man's Guide to Surviving Midlife Crisis
― Midmen: The Modern Man's Guide to Surviving Midlife Crisis
“Mary sat, quiet and attentive and blank. It wasn't like talking to a dumb seventh-grader, it was like talking to a pancake.”
― Widow's Walk
― Widow's Walk
“He had never brought home a school report and watched his mother smile. The clay ashtray he’d made in kindergarten had been one of sixteen Mrs. Flannigan received on Mother’s Day. All the Christmas gifts under the tree were labeled “for a girl” or “for a boy.” The evening Will graduated high school, he’d looked out at the crowd of cheering families and seen only strangers.”
― Criminal
― Criminal
“Midlife crisis, it turns out, is much less about a loss of flesh and far more about a loss of innocence, the stripping-away of the illusion of choice and order.”
― Midmen: The Modern Man's Guide to Surviving Midlife Crisis
― Midmen: The Modern Man's Guide to Surviving Midlife Crisis
“Too often during these media storms, I’ve heard people say, let’s boycott this product,” Simon Baker, a migrant researcher, explains. “Look at what happens when abused children get pushed out of labor markets. They typically don’t suddenly find better jobs. They get pushed further underground. In my research, I’ve found this often means going into sex work . . . What you in the West have to realize is the entire narrative is backwards.”
― The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
― The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
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