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“I find something quite carefree about the days around the winter solstice, when the daylight is so brief it seems like it’s chasing you.”

"Have you heard of our ecosystem?" she asks when I tuck her in. "Have you heard of my inner beauty and my outer beauty?"

"I remembered what it was like to be so young, and to be seen always in relation to the fulfillment of an older person's desires."

“I wanted to hold on to the house the way you'd hold on to a love letter. It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in this world. But I think I was also holding on to the loss, to the emptiness of the house itself, as though to affirm that it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn't.”

“To me welfare was just money, plain and simple, and had nothing to do with shame or dignity. I asked her what the government was for, if not to help you out in times of need.”

“People have a duty towards Animals to lead them–in successive lives–to Liberation. We’re all traveling in the same direction, from dependence to freedom, from ritual to free choice.”

“Inevitably, with memory comes pain. Sitting facing one another, they found the courage to compare their scant memories. They tried to exhume the past in long conversations which groped their way around the obstacles. They fought against the amnesia which perhaps afforded relief, and against fear.”

“But technology was a talisman of the now, and if a writer couldn't do much more than stumble from one banality to the next, at least he could console himself with the excuse that nobody ever knows how to speak about the present moment.”

“How many things remained buried in silence?”

“…it's nice to know there are people nearby who stop you fading away altogether.”

“If our bodies are something to be ashamed of, why are they created so? If pleasure was not to be ours, why are we built to feel it?”