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“Do any of us exist, after all, unless or until we’re called to do so? Are we really alive if someone isn’t dreaming us into existence? We’re all of us one dimension removed, one silent plane away from someone else’s reality, waiting to be conjured up. Who sons prayers your way? Who calls you in? Who’s remembering you exist? Is it down to just you?”

“Because we lived under surveillance, the idea of remaining impassive was quickly understood.”

I… hate this lol

“The gap between who she was and who she thought she was, was wide. The gap between who she thought she was and who people thought she was was the widest of them all.”

“Like you, I think of myself as many things, as if the thinking made it so. In the meantime, while I think - while you think, while we think - our actions and inactions create and destroy the world.

Our minds and hearts are well built to perform certain tasks, and poorly designed for others. We are good at things like calculating the path of a hurricane, and bad at things like deciding to get out of its way.”

“All my life my mother would say things that were the opposite of what she was doing…
“She never told me I had to do the same, but she didn’t realize I wasn’t just listening to her — I was watching her. A lot of women stay unhappy marriages because they assume it is beneficial to their children. My mother used to say she stayed with our horrible father for our sake.”