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“My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“It's really hard to put into words things that are just a little bit not okay.”
― Earthlings
― Earthlings
“Society was a system for falling in love. People who couldn't fall in love had to fake it. What came first: the system or love?”
― Earthlings
― Earthlings
“I, myself, had a very complicated relationship with emptiness, blankness, nothingness. Sometimes I wanted only to fill it, frightened that if I didn’t it would eat me alive or kill me. But sometimes I longed for total annihilation in it—a beautiful, silent erasure. A desire to be vanished.”
― The Pisces
― The Pisces
“What I wanted most was for this certified hot person to see a hotness in me, thereby verifying, once and for all, that I was hot. It wasn’t that civilians didn’t find me attractive. But for a licensed hot person to verify me? That was the real shit.”
― Milk Fed
― Milk Fed
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