6 Quotes by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

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    each of us humans has a moment-if not many-in which we lapse. for some, the transgression involves sex. for others, simply doubt or a rage so all encompassing, it impels us to make irreversible decisions.but whatever the transgression is doesn't really matter. what matters is that lapsing is our fate. we humans are doomed to it. worse, it is our destiny to look back longingly, with nostalgia, at our world before we changed, at who we were Before.we can never forget.but we can never go back.

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    It’s sad and beautiful how a few hours can come to stand for the many others that never were. One looks back and holds up a handful of hours to prove, “That was what it was, it was so perfect,” in spite of what one knows, in spite of all the other days that came before and after.

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    I was young, still so young, that I thought my lack of wholeness was somehow my fault. I had no idea everyone feels this way – that the most essential part of growing up is figuring out where your empty places are and learning how to fill them by, and for, yourself.

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    I know you’re picturing gold candlesticks and infinity pools, but this place they made isn’t decadent, no, it’s rustic in the way only a rich person’s place can be, with money flowing under it invisibly, so that they get to pretend they’re just like the rest of us.

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