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"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child. Unlike previous centuries in which child mortality was very high, it's not normal for this to occur in our time. It is something so feared, so unacceptable, that we have chosen not to name it."

"And Richard wonders why this happens, why he can't just be honest with the person he's in a relationship with; why he spends so much time not even being honest with himself"

"There are parts of him he doesn't understand, parts he wilfully hides from himself"

"If he's honest, hedidn't know how to love them. How to love Karen. When he was with them, he got it, he understood. Bu when he was away. when he was away with work. he , didn't miss them. Not really. He was glad of the space But they never felt real to him. They just felt like something that had happened to a version of him, some other him, some unreal part of him that he couldn't fully receive or understand."

"And time did seem to move oddly during all this. The days would disappear but the nights would be heavy and slow, and the weeks would drag but the months would bunch up, spilling over each other like they were all racing for the new year."

happy new year's eve eve

""I don't want nothin to keep me from learnin no more." But in fact there was something that would keep Deborah from learning: she didn't have enough money. Her social security check barely covered her living expenses, let alone classes and books."

"Narrative maps the geography of me, of becoming.
[...] It has taken three decades, but I'm beginning to plot my course confidently in the abyss."

"So much lost; so much gained; so much need from verbal communication" damn familiar for a beginning of an end

"Because of a lack of respect elsewhere, the men in these scenarios value a measure of subservience and submission from women that is intended to make up for what they can't receive in the wider world."

May we never work with or meet somebody like Dr. Lin (ceritanya lebih horror di real life)

I'm 20 pages in and already know this will be my favorite and i will literally never shut up about it

I love books that make you feel something

(also the last few paragraphs were so great enough to convince me to read more of her work)

"Images have their way of dissolving and then abruptly returning, pulling along the joy and pain attached to them"

"We want things we cannot have. We seek reclaim a cer- tain moment, sound, sensation. I want to hear my mother's voice. I want to see my children as children. Hands small, feet swift. Everything changes. Boy grown, father dead, daughter taller than me, weeping from a bad dream. Please stay forever, I say to the things I know. Don't go. Don't grow."