“It's too warm for red wine; now I mix gin and tonics instead. I find they make the ordinary sensation of living lighter, less ruffled.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“But now I remember: I am mentally ill. Properly, officially. And cannot be held responsible for my actions, my words.”
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“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.”
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“The worse things get, the more onerous they are to put right again. But this applies to every aspect of life.”
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“We rarely saw each other outside the walls of the gallery, but inside its glaring white spaces, to exorcise the tedium of the tasks we shared, Ben and I often ended up talking, and time and time again, he would say things that resonated so powerfully with my uneasiness about life, and back there and then, I believed it was an uneasiness unique to us, and that we were somehow bound by it.”
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“But I’m very glad to have been born, so I don’t know what to say about it all especially since my mom seems happy with her life, and I don’t know what else there is to want.”
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“But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered.”
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“In the days approaching Christmas, she always reminds me of the previous year: 'Jane crocheted you an entire poncho, and all you gave her was a bone-shaped beach stone.”
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“But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove myself worthy.”
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“But now I am beginning to understand we all become tyrants beneath our own roof slates. Or maybe we don't; maybe it's just my father and me—the tyrannical gene I inherited from him.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking