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“It is easier, I guess, to believe that life is inexhaustible. Not so much that its opportunities are vast or that one's personal dreams can be reached at any age or season, but rather to believe that every dull or daily thing you do will happen again any number of times over.”
— Nov 21, 2025 02:09PM
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rladpeps
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“Something about how living means relinquishing the dead and letting them drop down or fall or sink. Letting go of them in the water, you know."
— Nov 22, 2025 04:48PM
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“I think, that the thing about losing someone isn't the loss but the absence of afterward.”
— Nov 22, 2025 04:47PM
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“When something bad is actually happening, it's easy to underreact, because a part of you is wired to assume it isn't real. When you stop underreacting, the horror is unique because it is, unfortunately, endless.”
— Nov 22, 2025 04:27PM
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“It's easy to understand why someone might love a person but far more difficult to push yourself down into that understanding, to pull it up to your chin like bedclothes and feel it settling around you as something true.”
— Nov 06, 2025 04:51PM
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“I loved her hard and at a distance, which made it easier to do, experienced brief but powerful compulsions to hug her and almost never did.”
— Nov 04, 2025 07:04PM
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“Very often, people argue as a way of expressing the fears and frustrations they cannot say aloud.”
— Nov 04, 2025 06:53PM
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"I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left."
— Sep 12, 2025 08:58AM
