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She treated herself like an art project, a sculpture defined by removal: The weight. The small lines erased with Botox. Her face grew hard and angular, with hollows under her cheekbones. Her once unruly hair was heated and ironed straight,
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“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.”
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“It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.”
― Any Human Heart
― Any Human Heart
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
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“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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