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“When guys are scared of the dark, they’re scared of ghosts and monsters, but when girls are scared of the dark, they’re scared of guys.”

“Men are busy, but boys don’t stop growing. Sons want their fathers’ attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons’. From then on we’re all doomed to wish that we’d spent more time sitting on the floor while they were playing. Hugged them while they still let us.”

“Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.”

“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.”

“There’s nothing more human than a broken heart.”

“Maybe this place is like the bright beacon in a vast, dark space. Maybe they see the potential of us, but also how easily we could be lost. It’s a fine balance, don’t you think? The line between love and fire is very thin.”

“The inside jokes weren’t jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”

“I feel infinite.”

“I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“I’ve decided that I’m going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up”

“He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone, young and willful and wild hearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”

“He intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.”

“All grown-ups are angry, it’s just children and old people who laugh.”

“The only time you’ve failed is if you don’t try once more.”

“You had me an entire lifetime.”

“That wasn’t enough.”

“I remember lying there in my bed, not bothered by the noise at all, but actually enjoying it, wanting to fall into it, the way one wants to fall into a memory or a dream or a song, the way you want to believe this momentary feeling is a deeper truth, a path that you can choose, rather than a fleeting kind of bliss, a film that might end.”

“Art was creation. It was dissecting a piece of herself and leaving it out for consumption, for speculation. For the possibility of misinterpretation and the inevitability of judgement. For the abandonment of fear the reward would have to be the possibility of ruin, and that was the inherent sacrifice.”

“We are somewhere in the depths of time, somewhere people only dare imagine in their dreams. We are floating in dark matter. We are trapped inside a star, which is locked inside a system, which is itself a galaxy we can’t escape and we are lost to each other, to ourselves, and to the inconsequence of space.”

“The inside of your head must require a specific set of keys.”

“Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.”

“Everything is always the same until, very suddenly, it isn’t.”

“Luxury is wasted on the rich.”

“Art is a fragile magic, just like love, and that’s humanity’s only defense against death. That we create and paint and dance and fall in love, that’s our rebellion against eternity. Everything beautiful is a shield.”

“We hid away from reality, both of us, it was…wonderful.”

“The most dangerous creature on the planet is, and has always been, a young man. And the worst thing about a young man? That until very recently he was just a boy. No one gets any warning when he stops being one.”

“You can’t love someone out of addiction, all oceans are the tears of those who have tried. We’re not allowed to die for our children, the universe won’t let us, because then there wouldn’t be any mothers left.”

“Art is a fragile enough light as it is. It can be blown out by a single sigh. Art needs friends, with our bodies against the wind and our hands cupped around the flame, until it’s strong enough to burn brightly with its own power. Until it’s an inferno. Unstoppable.”

“When the dark clouds come, keep going.”

“The greatest illusion, is that life should be perfect.”

“You’ll realize that you’ve always been able to speak a secret language, one that has no boundaries, because you have no nationality. Art is your homeland.”