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“These were the ridiculous tales of being twenty-two and twenty-five, of being in that happy, malleable phase of postcollege life before everything set in the gray cement of adulthood.”
― The Sixteenth of June
― The Sixteenth of June
“To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always.”
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“A part of me was always aware of how painful it would feel after the happiness wore off. So I was never really happy, like, ever.”
― Problems
― Problems
“I wasn’t able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we’d done the buttons up wrong.”
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“Every time he says or does something weird, it's that specific thing they react to, not to Herman himself. Herman's self-aware enough to know that the hairbreadth distinction between the two is a coping mechanism.”
― Fishbowl
― Fishbowl
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