“Don’t let him be someone else when he’s away. Don’t let him be someone I’ve never seen before. Don’t let him have a life other than the life I know he has with us, with me.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present. I don’t know if there is anything less helpful.”
― Sweetbitter
― Sweetbitter
“Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one’s own destiny by what one doesn’t notice or feel compassion for; that what you don’t know and don’t make the effort to understand will become the very thing you are forced into knowledge of.”
― Outline
― Outline
“... the problem with being honest, he said, is that you're slow to realize that other people can lie.”
― Transit
― Transit
“Imagine if you made something and then you always had to be seen through what you'd made, as if the thing you'd made became you.”
― How to be Both
― How to be Both
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