Curtis

“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“I told him I thought he was such an appealing love object partly because he was so curiously passive. I knew I would have to be the one to kiss you, I said. And that you would never kiss me, which made me feel vulnerable. But I also felt this terrible power, like, you’re going to let me kiss you, what else will you let me do? It was sort of intoxicating. I couldn’t decide if I had complete control over you or no control at all.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Were we unusually dependent on one another the summer we swam and watched "Tenko" and went to dinner at Morton's?
Or were we unusually lucky?”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.”
― Dan Harmon