The Dangerous Art of Blending In
Angelo SurmelisSözler ve Alıntılar
I don’t understand. How can someone who had a difficult life want to make their child’s life even harder?
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I’ve squeezed as many bookcases in this tiny space as possible. Being surrounded by books and magazines makes me feel calm. It makes the room seem wrapped in a layer of protection. As if nothing or no one can get to me.
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“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it.” He has no idea that I live with a constant fear that any kind of confrontation will lead to violence.
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Things had been feeling like they might actually be going okay for a while. Now it’s . . . too much. Everything is too much.
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I’ve been oddly numb to it and even to the pain, but tonight I felt it all.
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I walk past all the stores in town that I’ve walked by hundreds of times. Looking in the windows and creating stories about the people I see. I always imagine that everyone’s life is better than mine. It has to be. I want it to be.
I notice too much. Every little thing in a room about a person, place, anything, feels like it’s giving off a signal, like everything is trying to communicate with me. That’s why I love neat, well-organized rooms. There’s less noise and my head feels calm.
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