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- Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as…
- Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those…
- [Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California…
- My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part…
- When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
- He doesn’t have to say it, i feel it too; it’s not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is ringing at once,…
- This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve…
- All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking…
- Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her…
- He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm…
- This is it--what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about--it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me in this moment…
- He smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter: three seconds, then…
- That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
- According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made…
- I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off…
- How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over…
- And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.
- My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings,…
- Life’s a freaking mess… there’s not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts,…
- I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide