Annie
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A rite of passage – we’re moving in together – feels remote not just because I’m single, but because I’m unsure how able I am to co-create a home, to be moderated by another’s aesthetic and practical needs and wants. I don’t think this
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“... there seemed to be some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“...real intimacy is a place where there are no mistakes, at least not in the sense you feel. You don't just blow everything with one wrong move. A friendship is a space where you're supposted and free to make mistakes.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“There was some element of loneliness involved- so easy to be loved- so hard to love.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“Which of us could say we were more sinned against than sinning? We were so easily manipulated - confusion made a masterpiece of us.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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