It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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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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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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