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“The sky has turned the color of sandy red clay: orange cream. The heat of the day at its heaviest: the insects awoken from their winter slumber. I cannot bear the world.”
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
“There is light suddenly everywhere, the light of your life speaking to you. What it tells you is almost the same as what happened.
Never mind that almost isn’t good enough; it’s all you have.”
― Edinburgh
Never mind that almost isn’t good enough; it’s all you have.”
― Edinburgh
“...you can lose more than you thought possible and still grow back, stronger than anyone imagined.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“Impossible to return to the place one has left”
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“The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.
Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?”
― How to Stop Time
Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?”
― How to Stop Time
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