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I want to experience my past again, but as I was then, doing what I did then—nothing changed.

In what sense, then, am I not living through it, again and again?

Isn’t the past always happening?

— Elisa Gabbert, from "Wild Animals (Normal Distance)," Normal Distance

If all possible worlds don't exist, we might actually live in a / very unlikely world. It might not get any more unlikely than this.

Elisa Gabbert, Normal Distance

I like listening to sad music when I’m sad. It doesn’t make me feel happier per se, it just improves the quality of the sadness.

— Elisa Gabbert, from "The Quality of Nothing (After This Nothing Happened)," Normal Distance

How sublime the moon. How sublime, the mossy ruins. The fear and the fear itself.

— Elisa Gabbert, from "Yes & No," Normal Distance

The sky is too high And I want to feel crushed.

— Elisa Gabbert, from "The Vagueness of the Moment," Normal Distance

When I’m suffering I don’t ask for help. I’m afraid they’ll come and try To take my pain away.

— Elisa Gabbert, from "Dramedy," Normal Distance

The past. It’s so still.

— Elisa Gabbert, from "Malice & the Unknown," Normal Distance

How boring not to have a crush on anyone.

Did you ever have a kiss so bad you felt like you were the bad kisser?

I think this is related to how boring people make me feel boring.

Did you know that you can trick people into being more interesting by being more interesting yourself?

— Elisa Gabbert, from "New Theories on Boredom," Normal Distance

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