1. I told myself that I was used to impermanence, that attachments would get me exactly nowhere, but then some people stay with you in ways you don't expect and you try to shake them out, shake them away, but your memory won't let you.
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2. I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by.
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
3. In the light of the bathroom, I see lines on my face. They almost look like scars except I've never been cut by anything but time.
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4. Intimacy could distort one's vantage, that much was true. Sometimes trying to see the whole of a person could be like describing a painting with your nose pressed to the canvas, though my husband would have argued that I hadn't wanted to see from a different angle, hadn't wanted to step back.
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories