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“Not everyone wants you to be someone else, Elsie. And I definitely wouldn’t want you to be George.”
“And why is that?”
“It would be a waste.”
“A waste of what?”
“Of you.”
― Love, Theoretically
“And why is that?”
“It would be a waste.”
“A waste of what?”
“Of you.”
― Love, Theoretically
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Or makes you resent your pathological inability to set boundaries, one or the two.”
― Love, Theoretically
― Love, Theoretically
“Death runs like radioactive iodine through your sense of reality, allowing this reality to be looked at in high contrast, its structures glowing. It has a way of making things very true, but also, somehow, less real.”
― Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality
― Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality
“When someone close to you is dying, you can begin to feel wary of their everyday belongings. You've heard horror stories about sorting through 'their things' in the weeks afterwards. You look with mounting unease at your mother's dressing gown, her slippers, her purse hanging, uncharacteristically unemployed, on the bathroom hook...”
― Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality
― Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality
“It’s easier like that, isn’t it?”
“What is?”
“Never showing anyone who you really are. That way if something goes wrong, if someone rejects you, then it’s not about you, is it? When you’re yourself, that’s when you’re exposed. Vulnerable. But if you hold back … Losing a game’s always painful, but knowing that you haven’t played your best hand makes it bearable.”
― Love, Theoretically
“What is?”
“Never showing anyone who you really are. That way if something goes wrong, if someone rejects you, then it’s not about you, is it? When you’re yourself, that’s when you’re exposed. Vulnerable. But if you hold back … Losing a game’s always painful, but knowing that you haven’t played your best hand makes it bearable.”
― Love, Theoretically
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