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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say 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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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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What does it remember like?
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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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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Let love write on you for awhile.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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