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they called her summer because she was really only appreciated when she was gone
“Writing is communicating with an unknown intimate who is always available, the way the faithful turn to God.”
― The Rules Do Not Apply
― The Rules Do Not Apply
“When I was young. When I had no idea that all over the city, all over the world, there were people walking around sealed in their own universes of loss, independent solar systems of suffering closed off from the regular world, where things make sense and language is all you need to tell the truth. —”
― The Rules Do Not Apply
― The Rules Do Not Apply
“You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then you have broken her heart and she can never give you any of it ever again.”
― The Rules Do Not Apply
― The Rules Do Not Apply
“There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody, and where everything will be a surprise, and then writing about it. It’s like having a new lover—even the parts you aren’t crazy about have the crackling fascination of the unfamiliar.”
― The Rules Do Not Apply
― The Rules Do Not Apply
“Lesson for young men: if you want your eventual wife to be excited about sucking your dick for forty years, don't create a generation of women who think enthusiasm about sex is a bad thing.”
― Scrappy Little Nobody
― Scrappy Little Nobody
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Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
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