I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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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 put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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