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Jill Alexander Essbaum

There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.

moods, self-knowledge

Jill Alexander Essbaum

Four simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours.

doors, love, poem, poetry, the-heart

Jill Alexander Essbaum

No one is promised a tomorrow. She had been wrong about every man she loved or said she loved. She’d been wrong about everything. She’d entered into her life in the middle of its story. She had confused herself with the actress who portrayed her.

love, predistination, wrong

Jill Alexander Essbaum

Let’s get you one, Anna.”“A lover?”Edith rolled her eyes. “No. A fucking houseplant. Yes, a lover.” Edith smirked. “It’ll cheer you up!

house-plant, lover

Jill Alexander Essbaum

Even the loveliest shoulders can bear but so much.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

Shames the shadow of love she thought

Jill Alexander Essbaum

Ghosts,” Doktor Messerli continued, “aren’t always the spirits of the human dead bound to the earth. A ghost can be the residual feeling that follows an act you have accomplished but feel bad about. Or the act itself. Something you’ve been or done that you cannot escape.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

But there are times to talk to the dead, times when the dead want to talk.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

A secret’s safest hiding place is in the open.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

I’ve never been nearly as alone as I always say I am

alone, aloneness

Jill Alexander Essbaum

Walling herself off circumvented the risk of real closeness between two people and the eventual, unavoidable loss that always accompanies love. Liberating herself from the concern of others served a sinister purpose as well. There were fewer people to whom Anna was accountable. It’s the easiest way to lie and not get caught: make yourself matter to no one

alone, aloneness

Jill Alexander Essbaum

A mistake made once is an oversight. The same mistake made twice? An abberation. A blunder. But a third time?” Doktor Messerli shook her head. “Whatever’s been done has been done to an end. Your will is at work. You beg a result. A repercussion. A precedent has been established. You will get what you want. And there’s no need to seek out these mistakes. For now it is they who seek you.