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[…] she was finally doing the thing she'd dreamed about as a child, the thing she'd given up on in her twenties, and deep inside she felt a leap of excitement because it was finally happening and she could hardly believe it. It was so easy to find yourself doing the things in life you weren't passionate about, to stick with them even when you didn't want them and they hurt.
— Aug 22, 2026 11:37AM
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"You're on the other side of the world. Who cares what people think? You can be what you want.”
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Margery smiled. It wasn't that she had begun to like Enid. It was more that in that moment she had experienced the rare pleasure of liking herself. Crossing to the other side of the world to find a beetle suddenly seemed such a simple and beautiful thing.
— Aug 22, 2026 11:32AM
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She'd made plans. But suddenly she'd stopped. Or, rather, life had. Life had stopped. And even though she occasionally found her eye caught by something that, at a distance, looked like a piece of gold and turned out to be trash, she had abandoned all hope of getting to New Caledonia. So this time she would do it.
— Jun 13, 2026 05:10AM
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[…] she would plod up the stairs to the fourth floor. She would make a meal with whatever she could find, she would wash up and put things away, then later take an aspirin and read herself to sleep, and no one would know. That was the truth—she could skip a few chapters, or eat everything in her flat in one sitting—and not only would no one notice, but it would make no difference to the world if they did.
— Jun 13, 2026 05:01AM