Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

Jandy Nelson
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It is the nature of the world we live in to be wrong. The world we live in is not as it seems. It isn’t as it should be, and that’s what makes it so hard to accept. World is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

Source: Ill Give You The Sun

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