Alexandra Kleeman Quotes

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Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.

But I had no idea who this person might be, or who any of the people might be who sat at that table and watched me at the door and claimed to have feelings not exactly for me, but at me.

And as he leaned in to kiss me, my eye saw his open mouth grow larger and larger until it seemed it could swallow me whole.

He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.

Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?

You needed a vision of the future in order to get anywhere

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,

I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.

I find it increasingly difficult to speak of my feelings at will.

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.

She was truly happy for the first time in her life, and it felt just like living in a small room painted all white, with windows looking out onto impenetrable forest.

The past was just a place where uncontrolled freaks you had never consciously decided to include in your life entered it anyway and staggered around, breaking things.