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“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Every loss is unprecedented. You can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really—just like touching someone else's body isn’t the same as having someone else’s body.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on the side of the road, and I told myself I didn't have to get into that car, that my moment of choice was not whether to have the thought, but whether to be carried away by it.
And then I got in the car.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
And then I got in the car.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of it goes: 'Blown from the dark hill hither to my door/ Three flakes, then four/ Arrive, then many more.' You can count the first three flakes, and the fourth. Then language fails, and you have to settle in and try to survive the blizzard”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“You'd think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth always disappoints.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“The problem with happy endings, I said, is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
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“You seemed locked inside of your mind, and I can't know what's going on in there, and it scared me.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I knew how disgusting I was. I knew. I knew now for sure. I wasn't possessed by a demon. I was the demon.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to paint, photograph or even remember it. It is enough.”
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“Yeah, well, she's known me since I was a baby. And she cares about us. But she also gets paid to care about us, you know? And if she didn't... I mean, she'd have to find a different job.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“My children are grown-ups., so you and Noah are my only little boys I have left.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other---maybe we never said it, and maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought maybe I will never see him again, and I'll be stuck missing him, and isn't that so terrible.”
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“Sweating 'you already have it.' nothing hurts like this 'you’ve already got it.' stop please God stop 'you’ll never be free of this.' you’ll never be free of this. 'you’ll never get your self back.' you’ll never get your self back 'do you want to die of this' do you want to die of this because you will' youwillyouwillyouwillyou
willyouwill.”
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willyouwill.”
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“Aku sudah mulai belajar bahwa hidupmu adalah cerita yang diceritakan orang tentangmu, bukan cerita yang kau sampaikan sendiri”
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“Sometimes you think you're spending money, but all along the money's spending you. ... But only if you worship it. You serve whatever you worship"
"So we gotta be careful what we worship”
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"So we gotta be careful what we worship”
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