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“The clearing of residual rage must become a periodic hygiene ritual, one that releases us, for to carry old rage beyond the point of its usefulness is to carry a constant, if unconscious, anxiety.”

At this point anything on my shelf skirting the edge of self help territory is risking being binned off because this book succinctly communicates much much more in tune to me than any of those.

“Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all own meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one.”

This book quite literally validates things I instinctively have always known and words the things that seemed indescribable before.

This is literally soul shaking.

Penny drop moments have happened reading this. I think it’s one I might need to come back to again.

“I heard you plagiarised your personality!” 😂

Saving THAT retort in my brain for a rainy day!

So far, two unhappy marriages and a contradictory man unable to account for his actions. Parker does not shy and is cutthroat at exposing character.

“I have lived for love, I have lived for art.”

Rereading 💫💜