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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Marina Keegan

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“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”

“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”

“We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”

“I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .”

“I miss dreaming forwards," Anna said. "What?" "I dream backwards now. You won't believe how backwards you'll dream someday.”

“And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”

“We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lie alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out - that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it's too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement.”

“So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”

“I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.”

“something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world’s remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.”

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