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I was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing.
Oh mom! You don't know anything.
“I wish I had one friend I wasn’t destined to lose.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“All those severe poets talking big about the wages of sin all the time,” Zee added, “but nobody ever brought up the wages of virtue. The toll of trying really really hard to be good in a game that’s totally rigged against goodness.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Expendable” may seem a bad word to use to describe your own life, except I actually find it liberating. The way it vents away all pressure to become. How it asks only that you be.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“I had rehearsed losing him not just to ward off suffering by taking it in small doses beforehand, but, as all superstitious people do, to see if my willingness to accept the very worst might not induce fate to soften its blow.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Living happened until it didn't. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
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