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“SLIPS ARE TOTALLY NORMAL. WHEN you have a slip, it’s just that. A slip. It doesn’t define you. It doesn’t make you a failure. The most important thing is that you don’t let that slip become a slide,”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“Beautiful people lived in a different world, had different relations with people. From the beginning they were raised for love.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“I always forget that trying to reason with the unreasonable is... unreasonable.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“What we shared was no more than a fragment of a time long dead. Yet memories remained, warm memories that remained with me like lights from the past. And I would carry those lights in the brief interval before death grabbed me and tossed me back into the crucible of nothingness.”
― Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
― Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
“I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
Raphael’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Raphael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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