Gabby Bess Quotes

#1. Whatever is going to kill me will kill me and it will be mine.

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#2. Juliana behaved as if she was performing for an unknown, ever-present viewer

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#3. Juliana imagined her funeral: a formless crowd of people in a trivial location, chatting amongst themselves, saying things like, "Oh thank God. Finally.

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#4. Why does everything eventually become terrible?

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#5. She imagined the universe as a giant sad thing
that consistently felt alienated by itself because it was too large and too sad for anyone
to possibly understand it. Jane felt bad for the universe.
Maybe the universe needed her friends more than she did.

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#6. We don't know those bones but I know what it feels like to know a dead girl. Her text messages are in my phone. I don't look at them but I keep them there. It seems fucked up to delete a dead girl's texts. It seems pointless. She is already gone.

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#7. A human brain is encased in a skull and each human exists in separete body so it seems like there is always going to be a feeling of disconnect. One human being will never completely understand what another human is thinking or feeling

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#8. Paige had a sadness that was so desperate that it could not yet turn into anger.

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#9. In vanity there is a certain confidence and self-assurance that is unattractive in a young girl and is met with every attempt to be suppressed immediately.

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#10. I wouldn't be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.

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#11. I close my eyes to the ability
to inhabit four places
in long enough intervals
to miss them all.

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#12. Look at this existence. This pathetic, fallible, wonderful body," you can say rhetorically, sarcastically, or earnestly and still achieve death. Look at me falling in love with fallible bodies. Look at me performing emotional labor

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#13. I am on three different mood stabilizers so I don't think I experience a full range of emotions anymore. I feel abstractly dissatisfied with my life but mostly detached.

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