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And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? asked Raymond Carver in his “Late Fragment.” I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
“These fundamental imbalances led them into concentric circles of ever decreasing size: a nautilus shell of their discontent.”
― Once a Runner
― Once a Runner
“Addiction was the inverse of honest work. It was everything, right now. I drank away nervousness, and I drank away boredom, and I needed to build a new tolerance. Yes to discomfort, yes to frustration, yes to failure, because it meant I was getting stronger. I refused to be the person who only played games she could win.”
― Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
― Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
“The back of her neck smelled like a parakeet’s tummy, sweet hay and fluff.”
― Once a Runner
― Once a Runner
“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.”
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“What is really contagious is fear, the constant fear of never finding someone to accompany us to the end of our days. And in the name of this fear we are capable of doing anything, including accepting the wrong person and convincing ourselves that he or she’s the one, the only one, who God has placed in our path. In very little time the search for security turns into a heartfelt love, and things become less bitter and difficult. Our feelings can be put in a box and pushed to the back of the closet in our head, where it will remain forever, hidden and invisible.”
― Adultery
― Adultery
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