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“She'd been unhappy for so long, her mother. Though Lana was beginning to think it wasn't unhappiness her mother suffered from so much as happiness, or at least an idea of it that didn't exist. If she admitted to being happy, what would she aspire to anymore?”
― Dream State
― Dream State
“But you shouldn't have to fit in my definition of you. I don't want you to live in the prison of my thoughts. I'm the only one wh should be living there.”
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“No matter how long you've been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you've never done it before.”
― Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
― Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
“For a few hours, I'd gotten to feel all the freedom, the confidence, and the sense of acceptance that my mother had wanted for me. I just had to stop being me to do it.”
― Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
― Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
“As I watched them around school, I saw that all their bravado, their crudeness, sometimes their violence, dissipated when they were alone. That was the thing that broke my heart, that made them so perfect to me. I saw that they were soft, and this softness made my heart sore, because I knew it was a private thing, an intimate thing that only showed itself when they were unwatched, when they felt safe. Their tenderness was a world I was locked out of, and all I wanted was to be let inside.”
― Open, Heaven
― Open, Heaven
Alecander’s 2025 Year in Books
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