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...Marianne is right that the age of thirty-seven--the first of my Reza years--is a time of reckoning, the time at which you have to acknowledge once and for all that your life has a shape and a horizon, and that you'll probably never be president, or a millionaire, and that if you're a childless woman, you will quite possibly remain that way. Then
... See moreClaire Messud • The Woman Upstairs
The mirror exposed time’s passage, yes, but eclipsed her heart’s true mileage. The lined face, the extra pounds, the hair chemically treated to hide its gray. Each year the body was hers, but her mind was out of sync with her reflection. Always playing catch-up, trying to rearrange the scrambled pieces of her life. It
Margarita Montimore • Oona Out of Order: A Novel
perfunctory
Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
You don’t remember what happened this year
“A life tethered to a phone is a life tethered to a present tense, a stream of insistent notifications (ding!) beckoning the mind back to now. The technology is “fixing us into the absolute present,” [Graham] says.
“It’s like herding creatures off a cliff or gathering humans into a kind of narrow enclosure w
... See moreIf neurasthenic sensitivity was the hallmark of nineteenth-century invalidism, a kind of hyperpersonalized concern with wellness is the hallmark of twenty-first-century invalidism—a quality that lets the rest of us dismiss the invalid as fussy or oversensitive while we get back to our frenetic, endlessly connected, productive lives.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
like tuning forks
with the shock of being,
the shock of being seen?
Hannah Fries • Let the Last Thing Be Song
despondency.