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Swimming in the Dark

Book by Tomasz Jedrowski · 13 quotes · Coming Of Age, Growing Up, Alone

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“I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me.”

Love Heartbreak

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“There were moments when I wanted to lie on the ground and feel the street’s concrete against my face. Just lie down, stop. To feel a heavy weight on me, feel my bones crack, feel myself drift off to sleep, for ever.”

Sadness Anxiety

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“See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying.”

Worry Anxious Game

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“Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that.”

Self Growing Up Coming Of Age Introspection Maturing

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“for the first time it occurred to me that we were all ageing, that we would not be young for ever.”

Growing Up Nostalgia Coming Of Age

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“You need to hold on to what you have,’ she murmured, more to herself than to me, her veiny hands clasped around a cup of tea. ‘You never know when you’ll lose what you hold dearest.”

Grief Gratitude Sad Queer

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“What freedom to live like that, protected and boundless at once.”

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“I guess it’s nice to be away from the crowd sometimes, to be able to hear yourself think. I go mad when I’m surrounded by others all the time.”

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“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting.”

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“We’re just queuing for a possibility, queuing for something, maybe queuing for nothing,’ she said, smiling her sad and loving smile. ‘But it will pass, my dear. Even the longest queue dissolves eventually.”

Motivational Possibility

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“It was the sort of early summer that erases any memory of other seasons, one where life and warmth clasp you to the absolute.”

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“Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after.”

Life Relationships Friendship Before And After Life Events

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“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.”

Inspirational Making A Difference Dystopian

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