Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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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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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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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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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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