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He looks at his hand, resting on his cup of coffee, and then observes the distance between his hand and Jake’s helpful face. It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other.
“Have you ever reached a state of equilibrium with a person and not wanted to disrupt that?”
he feels so capable that he forgets that this repetitive churning goes nowhere, except towards the end of the day.
He knows that, eventually, concrete changes will take place in his life, but he can’t conceive of any meaningful change that he’s capable of bringing about. Something will have to happen to him.
trying to be my best self and still be a huge bitch.
“The point is,” says Jen, shading her face so she can make better eye contact with Remy, “that you have to be willing to accept the Signifiers directing you towards your destiny. And you have to abandon the mindset that you, Remy, are so married to—that paranoid, the-world-is-out-to-get-me-and-failure-is-inevitable mindset. The truth is that the universe conspires to bless us.”
“I’m talking about— 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.”
