Shook

I’m feeling a little down. 

I am on my way to reach these goals of mine. 

I have been reading The Hours and it is a very powerful book. 

I started co-op.

Quotes from the book by Michael Cunningham:

“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you’ve made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.”

“Why does he desire nothing, really, beyond what he’s already got?”

“Why did she marry him? She married him out of love. She married him out of guilt; out of fear of being alone; out of patriotism. He was simply too good, too kind, too earnest, too sweet-smelling not to marry. He  had suffered much. He wanted her. ”

“Feeling the sort of happiness he imagined spirits might feel, freed of their earthly bodies but still possessed of their essential selves.”

“She can anticipate the queasy pleasure of her husband’s lips and fingers (is it that she desires his desire?) and still dream of kissing Kitty again someday, in a kitchen or at the beach as children shriek in the surf, in a hallway with their arms full of folded towels, laughing softly, aroused, hopeless, in love with their own recklessness if not each other, saying Shhhh, parting quickly, going on.”

“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes of wit and intellect; everybody’s little display of genius.”

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