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Pure colour, sheila heti
She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living. About a quarter through this book and I love it so much so far 💚
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@linfo
Mar 1, 2025
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@florinegrassenhopper
loved pure color. I am always thinking about this quote: “Are you sad to be in the living in the first draft, shoddily made, rushed, exuberant, malformed? No. You are proud to be strong enough to be living here now, one of god’s expendable soldiers in the first draft of the world. There is some pride in being have been created to make a better world come. There is some pride in being the ones who were made to be thrown out.”
Mar 2, 2025
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@linfo
florinegrassenhopper ugh yes so beautiful ❤️‍🔥 so many lovely thoughts/ concepts in this book
Mar 2, 2025
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@taterhole
I love her!!!!
Mar 1, 2025
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@linfo
taterhole SAME! I read motherhood last year too. She’s an amazing writer
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