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  1. seafoam* seafoam*
    posted a quote
    April 2, 2019 4:57pm UTC
    She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her
    own BoDY.

  2. seafoam* seafoam*
    posted a quote
    April 1, 2018 9:22pm UTC
    Sometimes in late summer I won’t touch anything, not the flowers, not the blackberries brimming in the thickets; I won’t drink from the pond; I won’t name the birds or the trees; I won’t whisper my own name. One morning the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident, and didn’t see me—and I thought: so this is the world. I’m not in it. It is beautiful.

  3. seafoam* seafoam*
    posted a quote
    March 3, 2017 9:39pm UTC
    I don’t know what’s the matter with me—why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

  4. seafoam* seafoam*
    posted a quote
    December 17, 2016 12:29pm UTC

    There are times I feel like I am not wholly here. Like I am looking in on my life through a dusty old lens. I can make out the outlines of the things and the people I love, but for the most part, it is all a shadowy blur.
    —Beau Taplin

  5. seafoam* seafoam*
    posted a quote
    June 26, 2016 4:09am UTC
    I don’t hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore.

  6. appleloop* appleloop*
    posted a quote
    November 27, 2013 8:54pm UTC
    "As the hours, the days, the weeks, the seasons slip by, you detach yourself from everything. You discover... that you are free. That nothing is weighing you down, nothing pleases or displeases you. You find, in this life except from wear and tear and with no thrill in it other than these suspended moments, in almost perfect happiness, fascinating, occasionally swollen by new emotions. You are living in a blessed parenthesis, in a vacuum full of promise, and from which you except nothing. You are invisible, limpid, transparent. You no longer exist. Across the passing hours, the succession of days the procession of the seasons, the flow of time, you survive without joy and without sadness. Without a future and without a past. Just like that: simlpy, self evidently, like a drop of water forming on a drinking tap."
    -George Perec

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