Madison Stokes

“You want to be interesting? Be interested.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way. How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides