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Phoebe thinks it’s amazing how easily children ask questions. They don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. They know that they don’t know everything, and it’s a little jarring to Phoebe, a woman who spent her entire career pretending that she had been born knowing everything. Bob had suggested it, said it can be precarious for a female scholar to be caught asking too many questions
— Aug 10, 2025 01:46AM
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Lucía
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Gary is not wrong—becoming who you want to be is just like anything else. It takes practice. It requires belief that one day, you’ll wake up and be a natural at it.
— Aug 10, 2025 09:13AM
Lucía
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It is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save us.
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And now they are back, but they are different, because nobody comes back from the dead the same. You emerge always with a little bit of the underworld on you, the lesion, the scar, having seen unspeakable things.
— Aug 10, 2025 07:08AM
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She wonders if her feelings for Gary could be a new form of love, one she’s never known before: love without expectation. Love that you are just happy enough to feel. Love that you don’t try to own like a painting.
— Aug 10, 2025 06:26AM
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To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. To take things out of the world and make them only yours.
— Aug 10, 2025 05:39AM
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I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. Like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. But that’s not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then disappears like a bubble.
— Aug 10, 2025 05:25AM
Lucía
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She didn’t understand that this is what happens as you get older—that the same thing that repulsed her when she was young is the same exact thing that draws her near now.
— Aug 10, 2025 04:15AM
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I had no chance, really. The younger woman never has a chance. She’s always doomed to worship, right from the start.
— Aug 10, 2025 04:00AM
Lucía
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a professor was in a unique position to open students up. They seemed inclined to trust that when Phoebe asked a question, it was leading somewhere worthwhile.
— Aug 10, 2025 02:41AM
Lucía
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And maybe they are all lonely. Maybe this is just what it means to be a person. To constantly reckon with being a single being in one body. Maybe everybody sits up at night and creates arguments in their head for why they are the loneliest person in the world.
— Aug 10, 2025 02:16AM
