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“I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“One inheritance of living under the male gaze for centuries is that heterosexual women often look at other women the way a man would.”
― Three Women
― Three Women
“men who wrote tender, poetic sentences that tried to hide the narcissism and misogyny of their stories.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
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