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“No matter what social species you’re talking about, all the way down to fruit flies, if you isolate them they die earlier. It lowers your impulse control and essentially triggers a self-preservation mind-set. A lonely person’s brain is
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“It’s painful, loving someone from afar.
Watching them – from the outside.
The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs…..
They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all.”
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Watching them – from the outside.
The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs…..
They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all.”
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“But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.”
― The House at Riverton
― The House at Riverton
“No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“Though sometimes when he wakes in the night all he can think about is death. His own death, of course, but also the death of those around him,the fact that one day in the not-too-distant future every person he knows, every single one, will be dead and gone, along with all the people he doesn't know,to be replaced by a crop of strangers who will take over the structures left behind.”
― The Silent Wife
― The Silent Wife
“The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned.”
― The House at Riverton
― The House at Riverton
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