Michelle

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“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.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“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.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name