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Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.
Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss. Only the smart people know it.”
“I want you to feel the power of it,” she said. “Of walking away from something you love. Doesn’t it make you feel strong?”
I like this kind of place, where you’re in between one thing and another. Hallways, waiting rooms, lobbies and so on; rooms where nothing is actually supposed to happen. It relieves a lot of pressure and lets me think.
The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.
How many times can someone bend before they break forever? You have to take care, dealing with broken things; sometimes they give way, and break others in their turn.
