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“Children never failed to leave a residue. Like little snails.”

“I hate having to be a functional person when I just want to collapse like a rag doll.”

“Work is just a role you play and I've mastered it perfectly.”

“What was their secret, how did they manage to maintain their composure, why didn’t they cry every time their alarms beeped?”

“My most frequently recurring dream is one in which I suddenly remember I have a number of pets living in my home that I haven't tended to in years. Rabbits, hamsters, iguanas, stacked in dirty cages in my closet or beneath the bed.”

I have this dream and similar versions of it all the time!!!

“My most frequently recurring dream is one in which I suddenly remember I have a number of pets living in my home that I haven't tended to in years. Rabbits, hamsters, iguanas, stacked in dirty cages in my closet or beneath the bed.”

I have this dream and similar versions of it all the time!!!

“Life is long, people change, I would never be foolish enough to think otherwise. But no matter what, nothing can ever be as it was. Everything has changed in a way that sounds trite and borderline offensive when recounted over coffee. I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe.“

“And how nice it was to know that one could forget such things. We are resilient. We suffer, heal, and proceed.”

“Naive, actually, to think that a mere signature was so binding. It's just a little ink on paper, just a scribble, my name. They couldn't come after me, drag me back to Monlith, simply because I'd moved a pen around.”

“Does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we’re living now, and the connection must be there? —— like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?”