Matilda Baum
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“Even when something terrible is happening
You laugh
And that's the thing I love about you most”
―
You laugh
And that's the thing I love about you most”
―

“In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.”
― Waiting for Godot
― Waiting for Godot
“But I think you’ll see in this book a girl who does find herself, not by success in the music industry but by taking the opportunity to sensibly and truly lose her marbles. The thing being that after losing them, one finds them and plays the game better.”
― Rememberings
― Rememberings

“Bring me your Nortons, your Kramdens, your housewives, and sewermen.
Weight my limbs with the nests of your flotsam, that we may chirp in chorus this melancholy anthem.
Mourn with your busdriver piety this sapless husk;
dull with your tender hymn the string of the lumberman's axe.”
―
Weight my limbs with the nests of your flotsam, that we may chirp in chorus this melancholy anthem.
Mourn with your busdriver piety this sapless husk;
dull with your tender hymn the string of the lumberman's axe.”
―

“Whenever you ask questions with curiosity instead of judgment, you are invoking guidance.”
― Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling
― Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling

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