Jenny Offill

Dept. of Speculation

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  • ♡emma♡has quoted2 years ago
    What Rilke said: I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
  • ♡emma♡has quoted2 years ago
    The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind
  • ♡emma♡has quoted2 years ago
    When she tells people she might move to the country, they say, “But aren’t you afraid you’re going to get lonely?”

    Get?
  • ♡emma♡has quoted2 years ago
    How is that even possible?” the philosopher says. “He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever met.”

    She knows. She knows. So it begs the question, doesn’t it? Did she unkind and ungood and untrue him?
  • ♡emma♡has quoted2 years ago
    Sometimes at night I conduct interviews with myself.

    What do you want?

    I don’t know.

    What do you want?

    I don’t know.

    What seems to be the problem?

    Just leave me alone
  • ♡emma♡has quoted2 years ago
    Remember this sign, this tree, this broken-down street. Remember it is possible to feel this way. There were twenty days on the calendar, then fifteen, then ten, then the day I packed my car and left. I drove the length of two states, sobbing, heat like a hand against my chest. But I didn’t. I didn’t remember it.
  • Анастасия Гречанаяhas quoted3 years ago
    I decide to make my class read creation myths. The idea is to go back to the beginning. In some, God is portrayed as a father, in others, as a mother. When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.
  • Анастасия Гречанаяhas quoted3 years ago
    hate often and easily.
  • Анастасия Гречанаяhas quoted3 years ago
    The invention of the ship is also the invention of the shipwreck
  • Анастасия Гречанаяhas quoted3 years ago
    The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.
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