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only his frat-boy calves
“There’s a difference between being reminded of someone from their pictures and viscerally remembering them,”
“Movement is the essence of life.
trying to be my best self and still be a huge bitch.
Gross.
No one’s watching you.”
“Life is repetitive. Everything occurs in cycles. The waves just emulate the natural cycle of all living things. Don’t resent the repetition—embrace it!”
“Maybe she’s different than she used to be, but that doesn’t mean she’s being fake.”
“You have to concentrate on what you have, not what you don’t.
“That’s so weird of you to say,”
again
“Fear is the greatest impediment to communing with things greater than ourselves.
You’re treating the wave like an obstacle, when really it’s an opportunity. The obstacle, man, is the occasion.
The cliché is true: You have to go with the flow.”
astonished by the sweetness of being cradled.
He assigns many of his own qualities to her.
goblin girlfriend
It makes sense that eventually, that person might knock on the door.
I think she came into our lives for a reason.
You don’t look bad because you’re a redhead—you look bad because you’re ugly as shit.
“I guess pigs and blankets go together.”
but he’s not sure it really is.
He can believe in the moon landing, but not this.
“Death is the biggest transition of all.”
Good things come to you in life if you’re able to view them as opportunities.”
likely because the bereaved are difficult to satisfy.
When we support each other, it’s good for both of us.”
“She was always pointing out things I never would have noticed otherwise. And now, there will be this whole aspect of the world that is forever invisible to me.”
It occurs to him that this thought, at this time, is psychotic.
You’ve clearly never done yoga before.”
I just feel like there’s a version of the life that I should be living that’s just out of reach, and it doesn’t make me as exhausted as this one does.”
something he hasn’t done in many weeks.
“I think what’s great about knowing one’s place in the universe is the experience of it. How it feels.”
I think it’s a waste of time to try to achieve perfection, because if you look at all the versions of the world everywhere, overlaid one over the other, then that is perfection. It’s nice to keep in mind that if something doesn’t work out for me in this life, it does in another.”