"So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment."
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"If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class."
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"There's not enough of me left over."
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"Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you."
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"Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself."
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"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective."
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"Reading takes solitude and it takes focus."
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"There's never a false note in a Berg novel."
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"I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory."
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"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."
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"You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed."
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"The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there."
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"I never listen to music when I write."
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"I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital."
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"And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper."
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"The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall."
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"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
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"Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity."
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"He was raised without a proper diagnosis."
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"Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life."
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