“at night, after trudging through the snow, i found him waiting for me in our apartment, ready to rub my hands to make them warm” [3]
“we are not idealized wild things. we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn ourselves. as we were. as we no longer. as we will one day not be at all.” [1]
“you had every intention of being depressed forever but as it turns out, there’s work to be done, meals to eat, movies to see, errands to run. you were meant to be in ruins permanently, your misery a monument, a gash across the cold hard earth, but honestly, who has the time for that? instead you survived, and things are shockingly okay” [2]
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