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Through some sleight of mind, physical forward motion makes time seem visible.
Michael liked that word, blubber. He said it all the time, even if there was nothing blubberish around.
What are your treatment goals? 1. Ordinary unhappiness
As for my grandparents, all four suffered from Eventual Death Syndrome (EDS).
She doesn’t have the energy for it, and she isn’t trying to get anywhere, so she has no reason to lie or manipulate people. It’s one of the upsides of avoiding ambition.
It’s not what men say or do to you. It’s what they say and do for other women, and not you.
I don’t know what I detested more: his reluctance or his capitulation. They both infuriated me.
He could visit the imaginary power of making his white classmates fear a black planet, but still turn the music off and get on with the business of getting on.
This being the condition itself: the relentless need to escape a moment that never ends.
Like a groove on a record cut too deep for the needle to climb out of.
Some people take pills. Some people go to church. I drink. Everybody’s got something.