There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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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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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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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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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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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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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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 looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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