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“I told you I was moved to tears by a speech a former president gave. It's not that I love politics or even the president--I just love to be convinced, to be guided into feeling exactly what the speaker wants me to feel. I give myself up to oration, to God, which is you when I let it be,”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“I might be better as an idea, you said, and it was hard not to agree - everyone is better in theory.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“There is an island where former versions of myself gallop around on all fours. Untouched, the island populates itself; the versions share what they’ve learned. They never run out of things to talk about by the fire that the latest version knows how to start. If Joseph Delmont came to the island intending to trap a tiger, he might find one. The version might go willingly, without a fight. The island feeds off itself. I wait to be discovered.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“I was so lonely I began regarding my broken heart as the most beautiful thing in my life. Soon after that, it was gone, too.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays