For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It&#39;s hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

The trouble with dying,” she’d told Jeannie once, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Written By Djuna Barnes

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