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“His home was cozy and smelled good, and had the feeling of stuff without the feeling of clutter. Every vase was a gift from someone special and every book was dog-eared. He had put a shelf on the radiator and on the shelf were old photographs of his kids, his friends, people he loved. Just being in the apartment made Lydia feel like something with a really charming backstory.”

Home Stuff Friends Charm Cozy Backstory

Book:Terrace Story

Source: Terrace Story

“I like to loosen the boundaries of my employment and remain longer than I’m needed. I can feel my necessity slipping away with every extra minute; it’s a rich, complicated sort of sensation, like napping, or dying.”

Jobs Dying Boundaries Employment Napping

Book:Temporary

Source: Temporary

“Possessions always made Lydia so sad, and she had never been sure why. Now she knew, yes, it's because they stay here forever. Possessions are the loneliest things in the world, lonelier even than people, because we leave them all behind.”

Stuff Sadness Loneliness Possessions

Book:Terrace Story

Source: Terrace Story

“No one is ever exactly who they claim to be, but some people are closer than others.”

Book:Temporary

Source: Temporary

“They noticed the continuous departures of kindness and sloughed their skins to wear their hearts on their sleeves as reminders. They always noticed, with relief, prodigal kindness making its inevitable return.”

Book:Temporary

Source: Temporary

“Living is also a state of mourning.”

Life Grief Living Mourning

Book:Temporary

Source: Temporary

“There is nothing lonelier than lights extinguishing themselves at the end of a long day, no one left to do them the simple kindness of snuffing out.”

Loneliness Longing

Book:Temporary

Source: Temporary

“Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone.”

Book:Terrace Story

Source: Terrace Story

“My boyfriends multiplied by twos and threes, a response to forthcoming pain, perhaps, a bracing for an injury. We went in dates to our favorite bar, and I was happy. I could be happy and sad. It’s the way I can multitask, it’s the way two feelings can be the same feeling. It’s the way a rash and a willow can both weep.”

Fear Weeping Multitasking Willow Multitask Rash

Book:Temporary

Source: Temporary

“It takes an aggressive empathy to accurately replace a person.”

Book:Temporary

Source: Temporary

“I dozed off with my head tilted all the way forward, as if sleep were a somersault I couldn’t complete.”

Sleep Sleeping Sleeplessness Somersault

Book:Temporary

Source: Temporary

“I couldn’t, at the time, describe the slice of light that glowed between door and floor, how the promise of this light was actually a slim, dull weapon.”

Light Fear Future Glow

Book:Temporary

Source: Temporary