Jay

“He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored.

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The wind of my life was blowing me away.

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I take the blue envelope...and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet as I turn and begin walking toward the waiting people, the wind blows some of them back on me.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room