During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.
Melissa BankYou sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.
Melissa BankI live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
Melissa BankThe only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.
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