I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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I 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 regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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