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abundance proffered too soon led to lassitude and indolence, a wandering dissatisfaction.
“Your problem is you’re worried about being everyone’s mirror and that’s not your job.”
She was so much better at being alone; being alone came more naturally to her. She led a life of deliberate solitude, and if occasional loneliness crept in, she knew how to work her way out of that particular divot. Or even better, how to sink in and absorb its particular comforts.
If you want to predict a person’s behavior, identify his or her incentives.
Although she didn’t buy the stereotype of women being the needy ones. It seemed wrong. Sure there were women hell-bent on getting married, but men were just as bad once they decided they were ready to pair off. Wasn’t it the divorced or widowed men who always remarried right away, who had to be taken care of? Wasn’t it the elderly women who reinvented their lives alone?
He wouldn’t have called himself an atheist; being an atheist required more belief than he had, a kind of determined certainty about mystery that he didn’t think was feasible or possible, admirable or even desirable.
