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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
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“You don’t have to like all children. Just one. And children don’t need the world’s best parents, just their own parents. To be perfectly honest with you, what they need most of the time is a chauffeur.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“I’d never traveled in this world. But I loved this world. And I would love it even more once I learned how to speak its language—for it was my language, a form of address where our deepest longings are smuggled in banter, not because it is safer to put a smile on what we fear may shock, but because the inflections of desire, of all desire in this new world I’d stepped into, could only be conveyed in play.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Her friends were people who she had these flashbulb connections with. One intense conversation. One memorable night. She built whole relationships out of . . . spare change, really.”
― My Favorite Terrible Thing
― My Favorite Terrible Thing
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