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Sometimes, nina, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.

Every once in a while there was a couple, in love or in ruins.

Oh yes – music is easy: it’s marriage that’s hard!

In short, marriage, particularly for a woman, was about as much fun as a lingering illness.

Seneca – hang onto your useful enthusiasm – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older

You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the all most costly of commodities.

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Because I can’t figure out how to be anyone else, and it’s lonely. It’s so fucking lonely being the person who doesn’t belong in this family.

I kept waiting for someone to recognize me, but I’d stop dying my hair or wearing make up, and more importantly I was 67 years old. At some point while I’ve been hiding across that age where women turn invisible. From Ania new defend fatal to old crone.

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I’ve always felt most myself when I’m alone.

It’s not easy being angry at your own creation it’s like being angry at yourself

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.

From the morning that Max and I brought him home from the hospital, Gian had delivered the gratitude and terror that company the gift of a beautiful thing: the implicit charge that you, then fourth, will be responsible for care and upkeep.

A motto favored by the ancients was solvitur ambulando: it is soft by walking.

Choice is an illusion promoted by the powerful.

The way the crane creates, and then erases itself, from the skyline

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A Speedy & Effectual Preparation for the Next World at the Met

Puerto Rican Obituary by Pedro Pierre

Willett’s eyes were like plastic baby pools. Full of innocence, and you’d have to try really hard to drown somebody in them.

Her eyes were too humming outboard motors, pushing a boat across summer waters. I water skied behind her outboard, motor eyes, rope tight, pulling me across a rough glass lake under a paste, gray sky.

Houston was the best man in my life since daddy died and he wasn’t for shit. I was eight years old when daddy died. People say you can’t be happy till you know what you want.

It was easier, Francisco learned, live in a world of delusion, which, after all was not so different from hope, than to stand face-to-face with the truth

If you really wanted to change, you had to believe that you were both yourself and your baby; you had to let yourself be completely reborn within one lifetime of of course the danger was in risking everything, destroying everything, for nothing.

My grandma knew this and her daughter. Everyone older knew. It was a devastating secret we kept for young people. We did not want to ruin their fun and also it was embarrassing: they couldn’t imagine a reality this bad so we let them think our lives were just like there’s only older.The only honest dance was one that surrendered to this weight without pride: I would die for you and… I will die anyway.

It’s such a dangerous time, right before the window closes. Dangerous for marriages you mean? Well that too. I was thinking for us. You really have to know who you are and what is ending so that you can decide what to do when you come to the fork of the road, it’s like pregnancyin that way.

She was scrolling on her phone, seemingly unbothered, unaware that she had nothing to look forward to, Cunt wise.

Loling las I remember, asking Bailey if we would see the guy who cleaned the windshield again. Got to the place where she is being dragged to the restaurant for minestrone soup by his mother. “She had him explore her body, she explained all the parts of her vagina in vulva. Vaginas are complicated, right?!“
Bailey’s simple yes has me roaring.

This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

I saw that the righteousness of many of these demonstrators simply helped to harden the attitudes of those poor fools who supported the war.

It is the well educated who will improve society- and they will improve it, at first, by criticizing it.

Skimmed at least 100 pages: fact, three: certain lifestyle factors help me nutrient, dense food, enough sleep, gentle movement of my body, strong, social connections, regular doses of creativity and humor, as well as a functioning coat machine have always lifted me out of the worst times both psychologically and physiologically.