It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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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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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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I 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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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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