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As a rule, the boys who despised gym class and intramural soccer will later prize and pay dearly for athletic wear, as if it was a more rugged, locker room–seduction Chanel.
“You're not a prophet but you should trust yourself more often”
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“We were playing house and banishing any premonitions of collapse, because that’s what love, especially first love, should be: blissful, willful ignorance.”
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“Perhaps I was so steeped in love, woven its mythologies through my mind for so long, that when it arrived in reality I could not recognize it.”
― Open, Heaven
― Open, Heaven
“no fairy tale setting ... holds up under a microscope”
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“I sometimes wish I could hate a place as easily as other people instead of hating the people themselves.”
― The Lookback Window
― The Lookback Window
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