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“You get older, and things change. That’s the price of admission. You lose the people who knew you first, and then you start to lose everyone else. You lose your work. You lose the place where you grew up. You get things in return—new people, new hobbies, a chance to see everything new that the world has to throw at you. But you lose the things you’ve had the longest, the things that went into making you.”
― You Should Be So Lucky
― You Should Be So Lucky
“Now he knows who he is exactly and what he wants, and he knows exactly how high a price he’s willing to pay for those things. He’s tired and he’s angry, and his contentment is something heavy and sharp, a prize that he fought for. He wouldn't exchange it for anything.”
― You Should Be So Lucky
― You Should Be So Lucky
“It’s not pity,” Eddie says. “And I don’t think I could have a single feeling about you that’s wasted.”
― You Should Be So Lucky
― You Should Be So Lucky
“Rooting for a team doesn’t always mean that you need them to win; sometimes you just want to see them fight, do their best, or even just keep showing up. Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying.”
― You Should Be So Lucky
― You Should Be So Lucky
“Trauma is always trying to convince us that we are beings trapped in amber, defined by the static, unchangeable events of our lives. But that’s not the case. The worst things that have ever happened to us don’t define us. We are the ones who get to define what those things mean.”
― ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
― ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
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