I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhen I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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