“She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I have the soul of a private jet owner, and the life of a public transportation rider. It's a real tragedy.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Maybe you are what you can't not be.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I couldn't make myself happy, but I could make people around me miserable.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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