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Better immersion than to live untouched.


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That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.



Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.



The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.



More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible



She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.



It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.



And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?



Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.



It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.



It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.





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Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

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Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

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