Karen Joy Fowler

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    I still haven’t found that place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.
  • Varsha Pawaskarhas quoted9 years ago
    we’ve done and more to do with who they are
  • Varsha Pawaskarhas quoted9 years ago
    way people respond to us has less to do with what
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    The entirety was overpowering. I was sad and horrified, ashamed and bereft, lonely and exhausted, caffeinated and guilt-ridden and grief-stricken and many other things as well. The system crashed
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    My heart grew thorns, each beat a stab.
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    If I were playing a part, I could establish a distance, pretend to only pretend to be feeling the things I was feeling
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    Maybe I’d softened, but I hadn’t forgiven.
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    Life is all arrivals and departures.
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.
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