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I was in the middle of a road, watching the headlights of a Mack truck coming right at me.
“I was lying there on the floor, feeling a cold draft tiptoe down the hall and into the living room, and all of a sudden I felt very, very lonely.”
― Strange Angels
― Strange Angels
“It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
“I press my back against the wall and feel the pressure of it against my whole body. I want to feel enclosed again, protected, safe as I was in the village. I wrap the blanket tightly around me, and I try to comfort myself by thinking about Tadeusz, but the loneliness that has opened up inside me is bigger than one person can fill.”
― A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
― A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
“I wondered how anyone could have been so sure about a concept so tenuous and impossible as always that they'd be willing to carve it into a tabletop.”
― Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
― Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
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