“Memories tell a story, if you look hard enough. Because the purpose of memory, I would argue, it to remind us how to live" -Leigh”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
“Pretend you're a kid again and you don't even know what's good. Just try for the sake of trying. For the sake of having fun.”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
“Purple confusion clouds my mind.”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
“You are in your youth walking down a long road that will branch and branch again, and your life is full of choices with huge and unpredictable consequences, and you rarely get to come back to choose the other route. You are making something, a life, a self, and it is an intensely creative task as well as one at which it is more than possible to fail, a little, a lot, miserably, fatally.”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“We try so hard to make these little time capsules. Memories strung up just so, like holiday lights, casting the perfect glow in the perfect tones. But that picking and choosing what to look at, what to put on display—that’s not the true nature of remembering.”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
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