In time I lost that confused idea of normality, too, and today I really don’t know what place a mother is. It’s absent from my life the way good health, shelter, certainty can be absent. It’s an enduring emptiness, which I know but can’t
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“Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.”
― Going Postal
― Going Postal

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey

Read some books. Rage about them. Steal from friends. Read more. Thnx.

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