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“Our silence spoke of a million different versions of what we were feeling.”
― Separate Things: A Memoir
― Separate Things: A Memoir

“You were holding all my pieces together, and you were trying to balance them all in your righteous hands.”
― Separate Things: A Memoir
― Separate Things: A Memoir

“The tight ball of muck inside me—I opened it. I opened the shame, and it crumbled next to yours. This connection—the one I didn’t think we were going to have—let some of my muck go. And when it left my body, it evaporated into nothing. It had been living in me, but as soon as it was exposed, it disappeared.”
― Separate Things: A Memoir
― Separate Things: A Memoir

“I was at the bottom.
And instead of telling me how sorry you were that I felt this way, you climbed down to the bottom with me, and we were feeling this together.”
― Separate Things: A Memoir
And instead of telling me how sorry you were that I felt this way, you climbed down to the bottom with me, and we were feeling this together.”
― Separate Things: A Memoir

“I wasn’t saying it didn’t all happen like that, but all of that was included in the chunks of time that had gone missing from my brain. They dropped out somewhere. And if the chunks were round, they would have rolled away. So I was hoping they were bricks and heavy so they stayed in the same spot. I just needed to retrace my steps, if I only could remember where I’d been.”
― Separate Things: A Memoir
― Separate Things: A Memoir
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