“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“Don't make your life about the loss. Make it about the love.”
― Legendborn
― Legendborn
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