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“If i had known that one day I would have a story, I would have chosen it, I would have lived with more care to make it beautiful and true so that I would like it. Now it’s too late. This story has begun…Even though I try to push it away, it follows me; everything falls into place, everything decomposes in memory, and nothing new can be invented.”

“For the moment, I am well. All is well. It’s that time, the end of a day. If they leave, it will be the start of something else, of what I don’t know, of a night probably. All is well. But if they go, I don’t know what I’ll become. I’m scared to wait again for the next day, scared to cross on my own this mournful headland that separates each day from the next”

the book was a little slow for me in the beginning but I feel like we’re really getting into the crevices of her mind now. everything she thinks holds so much depth and I can feel her drowning in it