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“I gaze at my parents, and see that a world can be two people, occupying a space where they don't have to explain. Where they can feel beautiful. Where they might feel free.”

“Because it's summer, and we're young until September.”

“I am the ebb and flow of the ocean. I am the breath between notes. I am the silence. I don't know myself any more. I am floating, floating. I am closed off, a total eclipse.”

Unetus sai jagu

kentsakas raamat

“After spending two hours with a book, and finding it more pleasurable than two years of real life, I'd remember again that life had no mean-ing, and sink back into despair.”

“For as long as I could remember, I had - perhaps without knowing, or perhaps not daring to breathe the thought - been searching for someone. That was why I had been avoiding all others. If only for a moment, the painting had convinced me that I might find her, and find her soon. It had sparked in me a hope that would never sink into despair.”

“Maybe it's possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”

“I whisper back, "I'm as tall as you." "I'm not that tall," he says. "Yes, but for men," I say, "there's no such thing as too tall.""There isn't for women either. There's just tall women," he says,
"and the men too insecure to date them."”

“I watched my friends in relationships make compromise after compromise, shrinking into themselves until they were nothing but a piece of a whole, until all their stories came from the past, and their career aspirations, their friends, and their apartments were replaced by our aspirations, our friends, our apartment. Half lives that coul be taken from them without any warning.”

Ma nii näen vaeva, et see mulle meeldiks…

“Stopping isn't an option. I need to create. It is a physical urge, a craving, like breathing, like eating; when it's going well, it's better than sex, and when it's not, I can't take pleasure in anything else.”