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The knowledge of so much suffering in the world didn’t help put my pain in perspective. It just made me feel powerless.
“Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.”
― Is It Just Me?
― Is It Just Me?
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Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
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