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The Year I Flew Away

by Marie Arnold

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Chemistry by Weike Wang

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I find it interesting how often beauty is shown to make the objects around it feel worse.

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Trust

by Hernan Diaz

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“Stories never start at the beginning, Benny. They differ from life in that regard. Life is lived from birth to death, from the beginning into an unknowable future. But stories are told in hindsight. Stories are life lived backward.”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

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“She knew that no matter how you self-identify ultimately, chances are that you succumb to becoming what the world treats you as.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

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“We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: future, life, past, present, thoughts

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“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

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“It seems that everywhere I turn there is a reminder to be found, and I have come to a place where they no longer break my heart; they make me smile.”
― Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

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