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Wow wow wow. I love this book so far because of how much it resonates with me. Another person, before my time, experienced pains comparable to my own and had the courage and ability to put it down onto paper. This first section has made me reconfront my own adolescent years that were defined by struggles with authority, religion, and guilt.

“We are not our own light.” - Nicolas Malebranche

Hulga quotes it with nihilism.

I read it with optimistic nihilism. When we shine, we bring forth a candlelight that has been fed by all of those who have imparted a little bit of light to us.

“She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”