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“I am a theatre kid. That means I'm desperate to be the best, desperate to please, desperate to never let anybody down. There is no room for failure, because failure equals weakness, which equals death.”
― I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
― I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The thing I loved most about theatre was that being a theatre kid was an easy explanation for the reason I didn't fit in.”
― I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
― I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
“Both Iris and Reese had a sense of themselves as trans elders; despite only being in their late twenties, they were, in trans age, much older than even that trio of just-out forty-somethings sitting together on a checkered blanket.”
― Detransition, Baby
― Detransition, Baby
“I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time...”
― The Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Journals of Sylvia Plath
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