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“Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“I have emerged

from this shrinking heaven half-drowned & with a heart molding

at the edges & speaking of the heart, I love most what it is until it decides

it isn’t. first a weapon & then not. first a mirror, wherein you see yourself briefly

whole & next to someone else who is briefly whole & then not. I am talking about the end

of love—how the door closes one night & never re-opens.

I Tend to Think Forgiveness Looks the Way It Does in the Movies ”
― Hanif Abdurraqib

“Love at first anxiety attack”
― Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best

“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty