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“Big joy and small joy are the same, right? [...] Something so ordinary can be something so beautiful, if you look at it the right way.”
― Every Exquisite Thing
― Every Exquisite Thing
“If you must insist upon shrinking yourself, how do you propose to command a stage? If you cannot hone and sharpen your thoughts, how will you ever master Shakespeare? If you know not who you are, how can you truly embody another character?”
― Every Exquisite Thing
― Every Exquisite Thing
“The thing we truly wanted wasn’t actually beauty. It was whatever we believed beauty could buy us.
Sex. Identity. Power.
Love.”
― Every Exquisite Thing
Sex. Identity. Power.
Love.”
― Every Exquisite Thing
“So maybe it’s not that you want beauty, it’s that you want identity.”
― Every Exquisite Thing
― Every Exquisite Thing
“It was the great paradox of my existence – I wanted to be loved, but I also wanted to be left alone. A dichotomy I could never quite reconcile.”
― Every Exquisite Thing
― Every Exquisite Thing
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