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“Telling yourself that something does not matter is one of the loneliest things you can do, because you only say it, of course, about things that matter very much. But often, and this is the lonely part, they only matter to you.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“I am a writer and comparing things is part of my occupation. Over the years I've learned to compare almost anything to almost anything else. I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“I would've loved you if we had more time.”
― They Both Die at the End
― They Both Die at the End
“The dog that weeps after it kills is no better than the dog that doesn’t. My guilt will not purify me”
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“And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.'
Silence again.
'Perhaps I am not yet ready to speak of them as strangers,' I said.
'If it makes you feel any better, I don't think either of us ever will be.”
― Call Me by Your Name
Silence again.
'Perhaps I am not yet ready to speak of them as strangers,' I said.
'If it makes you feel any better, I don't think either of us ever will be.”
― Call Me by Your Name
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