Yells and howls, threaded together layer upon layer, are enmeshed to form that lump. Because of meat. I ate too much meat. The lives of the animals I ate have all lodged there. Blood and flesh, all those butchered bodies are scattered in
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“Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It’s the artist’s responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“When did pursuing your ambitions cross the line from brave into foolhardy? How did you know when to stop?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
Riska (lovunakim)’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Riska (lovunakim)’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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