Nora had always had a problem accepting herself. From as far back as she could remember, she’d had the sense that she wasn’t enough.
Her parents, who both had their own insecurities, had encouraged that idea.
She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made.
Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn’t reached or pain she had felt.
Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imagined accepting it all.
The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale.
She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best.
And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.
Life and Death and the Quantum Wave Function
With Hugo, it wasn’t a library. “It’s a video store,” he said, leaning against the cheap-looking cupboard where the coffee was kept.
“It looks exactly like a video store I used to go to in the outskirts of Lyon – Video Lumière – where I grew up.”
“The Lumière brothers are heroes in Lyon and there’s a lot of things named after them. They invented cinema there.”
전체재생
다음페이지
문장검색