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Diana
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«I don't want to worry about what anyone else thinks of me, because that's not the point. It's that I'm worried about what I think of me, what's become of me, (...).»
— Nov 05, 2023 11:18AM
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Diana
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«There is the person you knew before, and there is the person you know now. And they are not the same person. So that, when you think about them, it is only as a way of understanding what you have lost, what you will never have again.»
— Dec 04, 2023 06:11AM
Diana
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«I wasn't screaming exactly, but my voice kept throttling up because I could see where we were headed and it made my heart ache.»
— Dec 02, 2023 01:44PM
Diana
is 75% done
«There are so many competing interests on the human heart. For those of us truly terrified of death, intent on leaving some kind of mark, plowing through our impatient twenties with an agenda, there are moments when chemistry —the chemistry between bodies, the chemistry of connection— seems no more than a sentimental figment. And then something happens, (…).»
— Nov 30, 2023 01:05PM
Diana
is 73% done
«And then Astrid did something that was also quite beautiful, something that probably saved my life, in the sense that I could keep it in my memory forever, and return to it, and let it stand against everything else that seemed so awfully true at that moment.»
— Nov 14, 2023 01:19AM
Diana
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«It was a warm night in Nashua and the crickets were sawing away on their legs, and I could see, for a moment, that I was going to leave it all behind, that I didn't have much longer, and that made the night, with its dark air and failed moon, almost beautiful.»
— Nov 14, 2023 01:19AM
Diana
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«He hadn't loved her in the beginning. He was sure of that. He may never have loved her for more than that one, long-ago moment.
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He had suffered, without a doubt, one perfect memory which, though misplaced, had never been forgotten. It lived inside him and would continue to do so for the rest of his life, to be reawakened again and again.»
— Nov 13, 2023 03:09AM
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He had suffered, without a doubt, one perfect memory which, though misplaced, had never been forgotten. It lived inside him and would continue to do so for the rest of his life, to be reawakened again and again.»
Diana
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«I was ravenous for a love so grandiose as to obliterate my life. (…) But that's not the story I'm telling now. No one —except those paid to listen— really wants to hear your musty songs of self-contempt. What we want is the glib aria of disastrous love, which is, finally, the purest expression of self-contempt.»
— Nov 09, 2023 06:43AM
Diana
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«Was it wrong for me to want to protect Jo from such terrible hurt? From a part of myself she was better not knowing? Was it wrong to preserve her belief in me? After all, I wanted to believe just as much as she did—in my own decency, in our bright future together.»
— Nov 05, 2023 12:58AM
