“Money, or the lack of it, pervaded the house as only something that is absent can”
― Prozac Nation
― Prozac Nation
“I used to think that joy was a place I wasn’t in but needed to move to.
Then I thought it was a practice that I just needed to work harder at.
But now I think that joy is not tripping over all my feet all the time.
Every time I get up in the morning and I don’t trip? I think that’s joy.”
― We Play Ourselves
Then I thought it was a practice that I just needed to work harder at.
But now I think that joy is not tripping over all my feet all the time.
Every time I get up in the morning and I don’t trip? I think that’s joy.”
― We Play Ourselves
“He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“In the end, we are all entirely summed up by our single most public failure, and not by any of the nuanced, beautiful, difficult things we accomplished before or after.”
― We Play Ourselves
― We Play Ourselves
“I think about Hélène: the night before we opened, when she smudged the theatre with Palo Santo and prayed for our success. How maybe her prayer had been only that we carry out our work, not that we were elevated for how we did it. Although that's nice, if it comes. It's just beyond the realm of prayer. Something even more tenuous than a wish. Nothing to stake a life on if you then intend to live the rest of that life.”
― We Play Ourselves
― We Play Ourselves
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