“My main trouble, my sister declared, was that I always lived my life like I was immediately planning on leaving it.”
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“Stuff tied them to the world in a way I had no inclination for. I guess because I never expected to be here too long.”
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“Over us, like a threat, hung a painted, shimmering sky.”
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“The problem was people asked boring questions and when they asked boring questions, I gave boring answers. But if someone had asked, even once, the right question, I would have told the truth.”
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“I couldn't hold down furniture and I couldn't hold down people. It all just peeled away from me.”
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“You will find the people who come to this path to be
independent thinkers and doers…They have seen for themselves the falsity of superficial dogma and religion. They know the true inner mystical path based on the principle of reverence for life. And they want to be part of a worldwide community of kindred souls who live it and share it in love.”
“Despite everything we had done to each other, we remained close.”
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“I prepared what I would say. I would say, 'Hello, I'm a woman who needs help,' although I had worked hard my whole life to appear as if I never needed any help.”
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“Here was my great, insurmountable problem, the culmination of all the lists – not everybody was going to love me. I didn't need everybody. I needed one person.”
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“I hadn't moved on. I don't know how anybody moves on from anything.”
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