Emily Jo Donovan

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Eileen

by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Emily Jo’s Quotes

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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“Time may pass, but the memory of the people we've loved doesn't grow old. It is only we who age.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

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“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: anti-war, death-and-dying

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“I related to the guillotine the most: I, too, was a direct descendant of gravity, born from women who belonged inside their countries the way blades belonged inside a body.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

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“There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

tags: books, reading

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