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“Life begins without our choice and ends the same way, a straight line of birth, breath, death. It’s us, our ideas and hopes and dreams and needs, that make the way difficult.”
― Boys with Sharp Teeth
― Boys with Sharp Teeth

“He was good at seeing beauty in everything, that happens if you’re no good at seeing it in yourself.”
― My Friends
― My Friends

“I hate that place and its sorrys. Sorry has never fixed anything. It just bares the wound; it doesn’t bind it.”
― Boys with Sharp Teeth
― Boys with Sharp Teeth

“That’s all of life. All we can hope for. You mustn’t think about the fact that it might end, because then you live like a coward, you never love too much or sing too loudly. You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.”
― My Friends
― My Friends

“The artist’s bookcases were full of poets, like the bookcases of anyone trying to find out how everyone else copes.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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