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"Engaging. But not exactly as mesmerizing. It made me miss Singapore though, with its Iloilo film as nostalgia." — Mar 23, 2026 01:05AM
"Engaging. But not exactly as mesmerizing. It made me miss Singapore though, with its Iloilo film as nostalgia." — Mar 23, 2026 01:05AM
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by Alan Navarra
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"May 17: family is no excuse for verbal assault
family is no reason for attacking providers" — Feb 22, 2026 03:38PM
"May 17: family is no excuse for verbal assault
family is no reason for attacking providers" — Feb 22, 2026 03:38PM
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"Power through the Davao arc and the bullshit of Dutertenismo" — Sep 11, 2025 09:30AM
"Power through the Davao arc and the bullshit of Dutertenismo" — Sep 11, 2025 09:30AM
“Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Normal People
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Normal People
“she believed in understanding upon meeting someone for the first time that they were going to be important in her life, a sensation like recognizing a familiar face in an old photograph: in a sea of faces that mean nothing, one comes into focus. You.”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
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