#cleanness

I must look foolish, I thought, but there was so much pleasure in being a fool, why had I spent so much of my life guarding against it?

2021 Paperback Redesigns

These feelings...they will get easier. They’ll stop being the only thing you feel, they’ll fade and make room for other feelings. And then, in time, you’ll look at them from far away, almost entirely without pain, as if they were felt by somebody else.