“Once I start thinking about splitting the skin apart, I literally cannot not do it. I apologize for the double negative, but it’s a real double negative of a situation, a bind from which negating the negation is truly the only escape.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I, a singular proper noun, would go on, if always in a conditional tense.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think that you're the painter, but you're the canvas.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“If taking a pill makes you different, like, if it changes the way-down you . . . that's just a screwed up idea, you know? Who's deciding what me means--me or the employees of the factory that make Lexapro?”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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