“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“James laughed brokenly, and I felt something deep between my lungs crack clean in two.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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