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ok mid life crisis ensuing, im baffled

im loving them to bits and pieces, and the writing (although m having to read every part twice) is so beautiful.

“Awake, my dear,
The winter drear
Has fled with all things dreary,
But quickly by
The spring will fly,
And soon the birds will weary.—
Awake while yet
The dew is wet
And day is young, my deary.”

If you notice anything, it leads you to notice more and more.

And anyway I was so full of energy.

I was always running around, looking at this and that.

If I stopped the pain was unbearable.

im actually falling in love with these tiny stories

The sea isn’t a place but a fact, and a mystery under its green and black cobbled coat that never stops moving.

قتال غير شريف، كأنك تباطح بيديك العاريتين سيارة مصفحة

“it’s not love that’s the hurting game. It’s life. Life is the hurting game.”

“There’s always a gun around—even when you can’t see it.
There’s always a finger that’s embedded somewhere in your brain, a finger that’s itching to pull the trigger of the gun that’s always around.
And when the trigger is pulled, you remember all the shit that ever happened to you”

“There were so many things in his life for him to cry about. So let him cry, I thought. Let him fucking cry”

“I closed my eyes and wondered if I could keep them shut forever.”

ok so far the fourth story is my favorite

“And then I knew that I would have to relearn the meaning of every word I had ever learned.

I would have to learn how to translate all those words. Thousands of them. Millions of them.

And then I smiled and felt the tears running down my face.

Finally I understood. It wasn’t the words that mattered. It was me. I mattered.

So now I would have to fight to translate myself back into the world of the living.”

“And what good did it do to think about all these things, to ask why when there was no answer?”

“Grief was like that—it was an earthquake in the heart. But grief was also a cruel thief that stole away the control you had over your own body.”

“I want to listen to my heart as it beats like apiece of music in a silence that waits to be broken.”

not liking it so far, hope the plot picks up

whenever i pick this up i am fully engrossed and captivated

after a longgg time of putting it off i just inhaled the rest of it in one sitting

this is making memoirs my new favourite thing

god i love the quotes in this book, top tier selection

i am thoroughly enjoying this so far

slept for 20 hours and read a few pages