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beginnings and endings were not as important as the moments that could have happened or the outcomes that might have been. Either it was everything to know the whole story,
Things were always stranger in retrospect, which was a funny little consequence of time.
Tell your mind to be kind to you today.”
She wonders how long it will be until she feels something again.
he was an anxious kid, then a depressed teen, and then, for a brief period, a full-blown addict.
Arent we
The world loved to take a beautiful woman and exclaim at the charm of her single imperfection; Marilyn Monroe’s mole, or Audrey Hepburn’s malnutrition.
People were always thinking about what to do next. Other people were always planning their futures, moving ahead, and only Regan seemed to notice how the whole thing was just moving in circles.
Emptiness repulsed Regan, filling her with abject terror,
you learn a new word, you suddenly see it everywhere. The mind comforts itself by believing this to be coincidence but it isn’t—it’s ignorance falling away. Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.
Because everything is always the same until, very suddenly, it isn’t.
Perfect circles do not exist in nature. Hexagons, on the other hand, appear quite frequently.”
Maybe in the world where he’d asked Charlotte Regan to have coffee with him (something he didn’t drink and probably wouldn’t enjoy), he had also taken the bus.
Curiosity was unspeakably worse and far more addicting than sexual attraction. Curiosity usually meant a kindling of something highly flammable,
“I don’t think we’re really capable of loving the things our parents love.
Everyone, in Aldo’s experience, could be quantified by the things that mattered to them.
“because it is and it was and it will be, all at once.”
it wasn’t any sort of commitment to being this type of girl or that one, but purely today, I am. It was just whichever version of herself she wanted to project for the time being.
Oki get it bcs id do the same!! We dress based on how we want to impress
That I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed.
drone bees.
But people didn’t like needy, so she’d learned to transform
Narcissistic mother, high-achieving sister, work-obsessed father. So common it’s nearly Freudian.”
within any equation, there’s variables,”
“She’d have to be measured infinitely in order to be calculated, which no one could ever do.”
Oh to be loved like this...
Everyone sees through you. Everyone sees through you and on the other side of you is the way life looks without you, and inevitably they will run straight for it with relief.
getaway car. It’s already done.
It frustrated him immensely that he would never be able to prove that time didn’t stop when she met his eye.
don’t see anything to fix,”
Where are we in the cosmos, because I have lived this so many times in fantasy that it has become six different forms of reality and now, tell me, which reality are we?
Can you love it when it doesn’t love me?
I’m actually not very good at anything in particular. I’m not really very smart. People don’t know it right away, but eventually they sort it out.
Yes it does, he doesn’t want to be the person she hides from, he wants to be the person she hides with.
I no longer understand what time is, how it works, what it does, I give
Rinaldo Damiani knows how to love me, and I didn’t even think to put it on the list.
If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.
“So when people say we’re alone in the ether…?” “Alone in everything. In time and space, in existence, in religion.”
Maybe this is why men rule the world, because they were clever enough to convince women that virginity is precious, that sex itself should be secret, that being penetrated was sacrosanct. It’s idiotic, it’s even dumber than it is cruel and that’s the worst part. The idea that I should want sex less than you, why does that exist?” Not that her relationships
had she simply craved the love she had never received inside the house where she had never received it?
That to love a person was to forfeit the need to place limits on them,
Cravings were wishes that could be satisfied, but compulsions were needs that must be met.
“It’s about sharing things—experiences, feelings. Art is something we do to feel human, not because we are.”
Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too.
They fall in love because they’re always in love.
The point is, maybe it works or maybe it doesn’t, but they just keep trying and doing it over until it does. Right?
