Shark Heart
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In the early days after I left New York, I would ruminate, doubt all my choices. But when I met you, I began to thank my failure.
“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is lift itself. We murder ourselves, he though, by remembering.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“And there was this might clear sky full of stars that made you stop and look up, your head empty as a ladle as you tried to locate yourself inside an immeasurable universe. And no one knows where you are and you feel, for a tiny second, that you have no parents, that they never existed at all, which is impossible and shameful to love, but I did. I loved that feeling.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“[About MFK] I wrote an article about her legacy and how she captures the essence of human emotions through her reverence for daily pleasures (especially food) that most people take for granted.”
― Kate & Frida
― Kate & Frida
“It must be agonizing for moms to wait for their children to finally realize they're Human Beings. We're lucky. Our human beings are turning out to be better than we could have ever expected.”
― Kate & Frida
― Kate & Frida
“What you see might not always be what you feel. And what you feel may no longer be real.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
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