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Everything All at Once Everything All at Once by Katrina Leno
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“Buy yourself some books, Lottie. They help with everything. Books can make you live a thousand lifetimes, a thousand different lives. Books make you immortal.”
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“The moment I started reading, I was no longer in my bedroom, no longer sad, no longer even myself.”
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“What if time really exists, like - everything all at once, all at the same moment, every single moment happening at the same time, over and over, for all eternity. Simultaneously.”
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“Books can make you live a thousand different lifetimes, a thousand different lives. Books can make you immortal.”
Katrina Leno, Everything All at Once
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“Keep going, be nice, make friends.”
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“There's always someone smarter than you ... The sooner you accept that, the sooner you stop trying to be right about everything.”
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“I’m fine,” I said quickly, because we are taught as children that automatic response: I’m fine, when we are not. I’m fine, when we are anything but. I’m fine, when we can’t stop thinking about death, about dying, about ceasing to be.”
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“Have you every had one of those days where you keep repeating in your head: This is important. Remember this. Remember all of this.”
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“You understand that this pain is endless. And that in and of itself is a kind of comfort, because you have found your own eternity. - From the essay "How to say good-bye" by Abraham Reeves.”
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“But I guess it wouldn’t be the weirdest thing in the world. Have you ever googled a blobfish?”
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“The point is, I’m your brother, and I care about you a lot, and you can tell me things. I thought we had established that three years ago when you were getting bullied by that guy, that Jeremy guy, and I confronted him, and then he was like, ‘I just have crazy feelings for her, man!’ and I was like, ‘At no age—but especially not at your age—is it acceptable to show a girl you have feelings for her by bullying her. That contributes to a patriarchal society and reinforces archaic gender roles that nobody has time for anymore.’ And then he was like, ‘What does patriarchal mean?’ and I realized I had overestimated my audience. But remember how I had your back then? And I have your back now.”
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“Alvin, you saved me," she reminded him.
"Yes," he said, "but I lost them.”
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“It is one thing to crawl into bed after a normal day, but it is another thing to crawl into bed after an adventure - that's the best kind of sleep, the still-excited, still-buzzing kind of sleep where dreams blur into reality and it's almost like the sleeping and waking worlds blur and become one.”
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“(she’d worked at a juicery in town since she was fourteen, “Not because I think juice cleanses work, Lottie, but because everybody else does.”).”
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“I felt like I was underwater again, and I couldn't figure out which way the surface was.”
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