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"had just enough time to read a little before the alice longyu gao concert 😈" — May 23, 2025 07:38PM
"had just enough time to read a little before the alice longyu gao concert 😈" — May 23, 2025 07:38PM
I hurried down the hallway, Mom’s words buzzing in my head, and I heard Paige before I shut my door: “He’s going to grow up to hate you too.” . . .
“Many believe that they need company at any cost, and certainly if a thing is desired at any cost, it will be obtained at all costs. We need to remember and to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone, at times it is positively to be wished for. It is in the interludes between being in company that we talk to ourselves. In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God”
― Even the Stars Look Lonesome
― Even the Stars Look Lonesome
“He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.”
― Brokeback Mountain
― Brokeback Mountain
“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
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Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
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“More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain.”
― Brokeback Mountain
― Brokeback Mountain
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