Everyone's got a different story.
Emma DonoghueStichwörter: life stories peoples
Everybody's damaged by something.
Emma Donoghue...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.
Emma DonoghueStichwörter: relationships compromise
Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away.
Emma DonoghueNowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.
Emma DonoghueStichwörter: acceptance visibility
...by her family circle. That was my phrase, one that could include me by some stretch of the imagination; 'circle' sounded too symmetrical, but it would have to do.
Emma DonoghueStichwörter: family lesbian choice-of-words
And it did me no good to recall particular conversations (if indeed these were particular conversations I was remembering so vividly, rather than inventions of my uneasy brain). Remembering clarified nothing.
Emma DonoghueStichwörter: loss grief remembrance
At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture
Emma DonoghueStichwörter: attraction
How odd; wedded for life, because one of us had died.
Emma DonoghueStichwörter: death relationships
...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
Emma DonoghueStichwörter: love loss loneliness
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