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Melissa
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“If I were a different kind of person, I might say that this whole incident is a metaphor for life in general: things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
— Dec 13, 2025 09:41PM
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Melissa
is on page 386 of 737
“And yet, he reminds himself, loneliness is not hunger, or deprivation, or illness: it is not fatal. Its eradication is not owed him.”
— Dec 15, 2025 08:47PM
Melissa
is on page 294 of 737
“It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t have the energy to try.”
— Dec 14, 2025 08:14PM
Melissa
is on page 62 of 737
I didn’t expect the writing in A Little Life to affect me like this, but I’m honestly falling in love with it. It makes my heart throb every time I turn a page.
“There are times when pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
— Dec 09, 2025 08:26PM
“There are times when pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
