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the University being an asylum, a refuge from the world, for the dispossessed, the crippled. But he didn’t mean Walker.
“...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.”
― Hope: A Tragedy
― Hope: A Tragedy
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.”
― Hope: A Tragedy
― Hope: A Tragedy
“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
“Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing I've been fleeing all my life. and (here it comes): a librarian is just not that easy to become...Apparently there's a whole filing system and annotating system and stamping system and God knows what you have to learn before you qualify.”
― The Dud Avocado
― The Dud Avocado
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