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"What good does it do to lie all day in the sun
loving what is easy? It never grew easy." — May 10, 2026 02:12PM
"What good does it do to lie all day in the sun
loving what is easy? It never grew easy." — May 10, 2026 02:12PM
“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.”
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“However, narrating what you remember, telling it to someone, does something else. The more a person recalls a memory, the more they change it. Each time they put it into language, it shifts. The more you describe a memory, the more likely it is that you are making a story that fits your life, resolves the past, creates a fiction you can live with. It’s what writers do. Once you open your mouth, you are moving away from the truth of things. According to neuroscience. The safest memories are locked in the brains of people who can’t remember. Their memories remain the closest replica of actual events. Underwater. Forever.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
“He made me feel like someone somebody would risk something to choose.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
“Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.”
― Cane
― Cane
“Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
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