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“...-smells and sounds I'd grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on me and acquired an inflection forever coloured by the events of the summer.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Secrets carry weight, like lead.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down