Beach Read
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I missed feeling that deep curiosity about people, that spark of excitement when you realized you had something in common or admiration when you uncovered a hidden talent or quality. Sometimes, I just missed liking people.
“God what a night. I was so glad you were home, standing up in all that wind while everyone else was blowing across the streets like tumbleweeds. I wonder if you wish you hadn't been there, with the future looming up in such utter chaos before us. And meanwhile, the night was old and you were beautiful.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“People that don’t wake up every morning feeling like what’s the point will never understand. It’s impossible. They say: exercise, meditate, think happy thoughts, snap out of it, wear this crystal, drink this tea, find your goddamn bliss. But I literally—and I am not exaggerating—do not remember a time when I was truly happy.”
― Little Universes
― Little Universes
“My bright smile haunts no one. I shoot no opaque glances from my eyes, which are not like the sea by any means. I have never eaten any viands, and my appetite for what I do eat is most excellent. And my voice has never yet, to my knowledge, been full of tears.
No, I am not a heroine.”
― Plain Bad Heroines
No, I am not a heroine.”
― Plain Bad Heroines
“It doesn’t make me feel better. To hate him. How do you unlove someone?”
― Little Universes
― Little Universes
“And whose 'I'll meet you' hesitates
If love inquire, 'Where?”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
If love inquire, 'Where?”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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