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Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people ...

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.

None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

And knew without doubt that I was living in a story Kafka would have been proud to write.