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p. 174 « This difference accompanies me, uninvited, and I exist uncomfortably in the shallows. I can pass as one of you for a time until I am submerged again. When it comes to claim me, it is sometimes the relief of summer broken by cool water, and sometimes an undertow that drags me beneath. »
— Apr 11, 2024 03:19AM
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p. 281 « It is this morphine-like comfort that I live for, the knowledge that this is accessible to me every day. If loud noise and artificial light do not pain you, you cannot know the sublime relief of silence, of dullness. I intimately know both states; I have learned to live through the chaos and wait for the reward of stillness, knowing it will eventually come for me. »
— Apr 11, 2024 06:34AM
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p. 264 I « know something that is more telling than a fleeting expression. I have learned to see inside to the repeated pattern on their hearts. It is that phrase that first woke them roughly from childhood sleep, that sudden recognition of self while in a crowded place one day that instantly set them apart from everyone else, the separation of self that both terrifies and exhilarates. »
— Apr 11, 2024 06:17AM
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p. 256 « No. I am already full. I am full of information, of facts and words that occupy me, that overwhelm me. I do not want pieces of your life to carry around with me too. This is what I wanted to say, but I remained silent. »
— Apr 11, 2024 06:08AM
