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‘To fear love is to fear life,
already three-par...
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mum died three months before the wedding Nora’s grief
pain she had tried to escape
suicide
as soon as disappointment is felt in full, you’ll come back here.
How to try yet another life.
‘I wish I hadn’t left Dan.
they are all your lives.’
A person was like a city. You couldn’t let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole.
pouring himself a scotch.
Dan's an alcoholic?
she hadn’t the will or clarity
the energy to do anything.
understand lack of energy
after Izzy had gone
faded between them until their friendship became just a vapour
debb i e
Meditation for Beginners.
Henry David Thoreau.
‘Icosagon,’
they seem so damn happy to have made it and you don’t resent them, but you do resent yourself for not having their ability to work it all out.
I feel that
nothing changed.’
‘Except you.’
Sometimes regrets aren’t based on fact at all.
the only way to learn is to live.’
It is a library of possibility.
different life didn’t mean a different planet.
‘Why did you quit?’
didn’t want to be seen.
have happily been invisible.
As if her own agency in her own life was automatically wrong.
highly critical of everything
simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime.
Does Sammi feel this way?
solitude
A connection between herself and the world.
once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges,
hope in being
The surface air temperatures in Svalbard were warming at twice the global rate.
sad but true
icebergs doing a somersault
scary
Jean Shrimpton or Marianne Faithful.
I remember them.
invisible baton of failure her mother had passed down,
unspoken belief that life was meant to fuck you over.
lives ultimately felt the same.
disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries
flashes of wonder an...
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shock was that she felt like she was about to live.
‘I am like you, Nora. I visit lives that aren’t mine.
problem accepting herself.
me too
wasn’t enough.
Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.’
To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.
everything humans see is a simplification.
you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,’
Camus.’
‘I am who I am.’
The name God gave when asked in the bible
