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He’s smiling too - the whiteness of his teeth shows up like a scratched match flaring - but he’s holding up his hand, as if to fend her off in play, or else to protect himself from the camera, from the person who must be there, taking the
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“I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won’t just think about how unbearable it is that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“There is a man who travels around the world trying to find places where you can stand still and hear no human sound. It is impossible to feel calm in cities, he believes, because we so rarely hear birdsong there. Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“She remembers the first night she knew she loved him, the way the fear came rushing in. She laid her head on his chest and listened to his heart. One day this too will stop, she thought. The no, no, no of it.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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