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cockroaches are like onions. cockroaches have layers, onions have layers...

“She told herself to be a detached observer of her emotional landscape. In her mind, she repeated the phrase emotional landscape and then saw it there, a gray silhouette against a gray sky. She drew the bath. She read the books. She told the stories. She lay in the darkness, waiting, waiting.”

“The magic-hour light cast everything in melancholic tones—the gelatinous bits of noodles left on the boy’s plastic plate, the vagrant peas beneath his high chair, the clutter of wayward puppets and matchbox cars strewn across counters and beside the cat-food dish. In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child.”

annual rereading and it feels just like the first breath of spring in the air

“Ah, and I don’t even want anything explained to me that in order to be explained would have to be removed from itself. I don’t want anything explained to me that once again needs human validation to be interpreted.”

“Each moment of finding is a getting lost.”