My mother dropped me off at two.

A blog dedicated to recording quotes from Rachel Klein's The Moth Diaries.

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I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.

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That night I called my mother and asked her what to do. She laughed at me and told me I should do whatever made me feel comfortable. But I need to know. It is important to me.

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I can’t get the words out. They stick in my throat like fish bones.

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I know exactly how ordinary she really is. But if I had the chance, I would talk about her endlessly.

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She doesn’t seem to need anything more than her books and her birds and her plants. I wish I could be like that.

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I loved the story so much. I read it over again right away when I finished. I went from the last page back to the first without stopping, sinking deeper and deeper into the twilight language. I want to write a story like that, to set up everything so carefully, detail by detail, that when something totally outlandish happens, it seems perfectly natural, even inevitable.

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I’m always scared when I’m called to the phone. It’s incredibly hard for me to put the receiver to my ear. It wants to swallow me. I’m struggling to lift it, while the person on the other end is hanging in space, waiting for my voice.

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I forced myself not to run away, to pretend that what was happening was perfectly normal.

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If I am no longer the person I once was, then I no longer know any of the people around me.

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They don’t need me to tell them that. They have ordinary truth. What would they do with my extraordinary truth?

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The days are false. The nights are true.

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Even when it came to ideas and books, we were only interested in what reflected us.

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Is there something wrong with me? I don’t have urges. The other girls have to eat or smoke or take drugs or talk on the phone or buy clothes or go to parties or listen to music or be with boys. I don’t need any of that.

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If there were a nuclear holocaust, who would want to survive? You’d never be able to come out of your shelter. You’d be trapped underground until you ran out of food and water. Pretty soon the air raid shelter would start to feel like your tomb.

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In the end, it doesn’t matter if the words are true or a lie. They serve the same purpose.

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I never tried to get sympathy from anyone. I never used my father as an excuse for anything.

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My mother and I are like pieces of driftwood, rising and falling on the ocean’s swells. I’m always afraid I’ll float away and lose her.

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