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| 4e24dfc | Elspeth wasn't keen. She'd lived with someone once and hated it. I think she felt differently towards the end, when I was taking care of her all the time. I think she realised that it could have worked, us living together. I'm fairly self-sufficient and so was she. She liked to be alone, knowing I was nearby if she wanted me." "Our mom is like that." "Is she?" "I think Dad is always kind of confused, you know, sometimes Mom seems like she's.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 3b5d731 | You see," resumed Laura, "I really have some grounds for supposing that my next incarnation will be in a lower organism. I shall be an animal of some kind. On the other hand, I haven't been a bad sort in my way, so I think I may count on being a nice animal, some thing elegant and lively, with a love of fun. An otter, perhaps." "I can't imagine you as an otter," said Amanda. "Well, I don't suppose you can imagine me as an angel, if it comes.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 675db83 | Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 6893f75 | I reach up and pull my hair back from my face, show him the scar from the accident. Unconsciously, he mimics my gesture, touches the same scar on his own forehead. "It's just like mine," says my self, amazed. "How did you get it?" "The same as you. It is the same. We are the same." A translucent moment. I didn't understand, and then I did, just like that. I watch it happen. I want to be both of us at once, feel again the feeling of losing t.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| fffd272 | Now you're making me self-conscious. I feel like every time I blow my nose it's a historic event." "Well, it is." She rolls her eyes. "What's the opposite of determinism?" "Chaos." "Oh. I don't think I like that. Do you like that?" I take a big bite out of the Bismarck and consider chaos. "Well, I do and I don't. Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean somet.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 153f34f | We come to a house and walk down the small walkway to its backyard. In the yard there are two screens and a slide projector. People are seated in lawn chairs, watching slides of trees. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 1e32efd | I'm suicidal just thinking about it. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| d439f92 | DeTamble & DeTamble, Alcoholics at Large, I have not | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| dcd35a1 | and to see years all present in your face. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 3409bf9 | a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| f92a77f | and we laugh, and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 0c96d39 | In the past, we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 4bd1539 | I love you, always. Time is nothing. Henry | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 3b7d56d | Ungrateful soul, not to forego its own miserable gratifications, it consented to lose God. | Alphonsus Liguori | ||
| 81f9dd0 | As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are having. | affirming empowerment friends friendships healing healing-from-abuse moving-on recovery recovery-from-abuse survivor survivors thriver victim victim-role | Maureen Brady | |
| e7e0eda | For most of my life, I have been followed and sometimes haunted by Marcia Brady. I don't have a choice in the matter. Imagine always being overshadowed by a younger, prettier, more popular you. | Maureen McCormick | ||
| 801cef3 | It wasn't like my fellow Bradys didn't have their own issues. I'd later learn that Bob Reed hated the show and hid his homosexuality, Eve Plumb resented me for getting too much attention and Susie Olsen despised her pigtails and the fake lisp the producers had her employ to ratchet up her cuteness factor. But as a teenager, I had no idea that few people are everything they present to the outside world. | Maureen McCormick | ||
| 1a1378d | It's funny. My mother never wanted me to write a memoir. She was adamant about that. It took me a while after her death to realize that this was an extension of the shame she had carried through her entire life, the insidious fear she had that people would find out about her secret. But I saw her in a different light. To me, she was an amazing woman, something I hope my daughter will one day be able to say about me and if not amazing. I wa.. | Maureen McCormick | ||
| 6127008 | I create a home that is a safe and nurturing place for me, where I am free to gather myself. | freedom healing-journey home home-sweet-home personal-safety safe-and-secure safety soul-journey | Maureen Brady | |
| a8b832e | There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work. | Alternative medicine | ||
| 3c649e2 | Giovanna d'Arco aveva capeggiato un esercito quand'era poco piu grande di Harriet, e nondimeno, il Natale scorso, suo padre le aveva regalato un offensivo gioco di societa chiamato Cosa faro da grande? Era un gioco del tutto insulso, teso a indirizzare le future carriere delle partecipanti, ma per quanto bene una giocasse, soltanto quattro sbocchi le si paravano davanti: insegnante, ballerina, madre o infermiera. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 337d3a6 | The highest of distinctions is service to others. | Altruism | ||
| 4f6f7f5 | and there she was, turning and smiling at me, at me! and there were way too many people in the theater because it was the seven o'clock show, way more people than I was comfortable with my generalized anxiety and hatred of crowded places and more people trickling in even after the show had started but I didn't care, it could have been a foxhole in the Somme being shelled by the Germans and all that mattered was her next to me in the dark, h.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 4da8796 | What if the pattern is pre-set? No no - hang on | Donna Tartt | ||
| f02952a | credulous father, a distinguished judge who had spent his final | Donna Tartt | ||
| 1a7e4bb | Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word. | Altruism | ||
| 1cd1ce2 | Only here's what I really, really want someone to explain to me. What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted--? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| a3462b0 | These Things We Do, That Others May Live | Altruism | ||
| d39eba6 | Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. | Alvin Toffler | ||
| cb1272f | In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts. Mr. MacNatt was an auto-parts salesman; Mrs. MacNatt was shaped like a pigeon and sold Avon. They had got my parents doing things like taking bus trips to factory outlets and playing a dice game called "bunko" and hanging around the piano bar at the Ramada Inn." | Donna Tartt | ||
| 587abbf | Now of course, it would be easy for me to veer to the opposite extreme. I could say the secret of Julian's charm was that he latched on to young people who wanted to feel better than everybody else; that he had a strange gift for twisting feelings of inferiority into superiority and arrogance. I could also say that he did this not through altruistic motives but selfish ones, in order to fulfill some egotistic impulse of his own. And I could.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 1cbe2b4 | telephone, "Myriam's not my wife! This--" he handed" | Donna Tartt | ||
| 722066f | God' as reference to long-term pattern we can't decipher. | Donna Tartt | ||
| ae21891 | I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever. | Donna Tartt | ||
| ad2dacb | Three coffees, two with milk, please," said Francis to the fat woman behind the counter. "No milk, just Cremora." "Well, then, just black, I guess." He turned to us. "Have you seen the paper this morning?" | Donna Tartt | ||
| d76d031 | At her tone, at once intimate and formal, a terrible sadness came over me, and when we looked at each other it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment, clear as glass, a complexity of stillness that was rainy afternoons in spring, a dark chair in the hallway, the light-as-air touch of her hand on the back of my head. "I'm" | Donna Tartt | ||
| 91c8cdb | I often thought how peculiar my life must look to someone reading those letters, far away. | Donna Tartt | ||
| df0db89 | No, I don't think they're obsessive, they're just dedicated. | Alyson Hannigan | ||
| b08673e | It may feel like an odd sensation but, done correctly, anal sex should not be painful. | Alyssa Dweck | ||
| d87bd2f | After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great,' he said. 'To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident to one's moment of being. There are other advantages, more difficult to speak of, things which ancient sources only hint at and which I myself only understood after the fact. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 548c511 | For months I had been trying to be less myself. | Amanda Filipacchi | ||
| 4cebaa9 | Und bei diesem strammen kleinen Portrat ist es nicht schwer, das Menschliche in dem Finken zu sehen. Wurdevoll, verwundbar. Ein Gefangener, der einen anderen anschaut. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 597305e | It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment then for what is was; I suppose we never do. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 795a852 | For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian. | poetry | Donna Tartt |