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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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“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
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“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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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
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“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“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
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