The rain is gone by morning, and the sun streaming in through the window is the sort of clean light you don’t get in the city. It hasn’t passed through smoke or exhaust or bad memories. It’s hitting you right from the source.
“A fact of my life was that I had a morbid fear of reproach, especially from women.”
― Purity
― Purity
“Eventually I gave up making cards. There was such childish hope in these cards, I began to feel pitiful even to myself like a dog whose tail is thump-thump-thumping long after everyone has abandoned him.”
― My Life as a Rat
― My Life as a Rat
“History, huh?”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“But strict limits to intimacy are the straight man’s burden.”
― Purity
― Purity
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