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“I would never say snog. I would say osculate." She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?”

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Joe Dunthorne is a British novelist born in 1982. His works are acclaimed for their unique narrative style and profound insights into contemporary social issues. more

“I was camped at the same site as her: Broughton Farm. She came over to my tent and showed me her blisters. She asked me whether I knew the reason why a blister can keep on producing fluid ad infinitum. I said that I had always wondered the same thing about mucus. One of the reasons we are together is because we have similar interests.”

Said Reason Together Interest Reason Why Farms Ads Site Fluid Tents Blisters

Author:Joe Dunthorne

“The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.”

“After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.”

Feels Said Sometimes Body Seems Brain Conversation Your Body Controlled Bureaucracy Mario Nintendo Telegrams Surnames

Author:Joe Dunthorne

“...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.”

Ifs Made Literature Happened Now And Then

Author:Norman Maclean

“Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.”

Feels Minutes Broken Lovers Zone Virgins Foe Amorous Fainting

Author:John Wilmot

“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”

Ifs Hard

Author:Tana French

“Better to be screwed physically than financially.”

Book:Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Source: Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

“It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.”

World Eye Dangerous Biology Edited

Author:Brené Brown

“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”

Facts Shows Understanding Differences Path Healthy Anxiety Research Strive Addiction Critical Shields Perfectionism Paralysis Hamper Laying Down

Author:Brené Brown

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