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“In a fantasy, my friend could have made himself immune to broken glass. I could have made the Portland lawyer unmarried. But that somehow feels like cheating. A frictionless daydream feels like vapor. There's more traction when you let reality poke through the dreamlike splinters emerging from the grain of the wood, catching in the palm.”

"We can't imagine our lives without the unlived lives they contain."

“Once upon a time I met a stranger and in my mind we lived an entire life together. Not just one life, but many lives. Not just once, but many times.” leslie jamison immediately calling put my daydreaming habits 🫢

“the shore path is now built up, shifted,
torn out of the meadow and discarded.
i, too, have emerged repeatedly
as a translation of myself,
transferred and rewritten
i appear in a new transcription
although in a similar form”

“…and this is my secret work, to be worthy of you both and this infinite discourse where everything is interesting because you point it out and say, Isn't that interesting?”

“This controlled environment works for now, but what about the future? Who will we be? My future self is capable of anything and I hate her for that.”

the katharina volckmer story was a slay