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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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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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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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