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101 Sandro wanting to know things about her childhood- before she had become readably a person- becoming a fixed position to others and yourself, being locked inside your body

101 to be young is to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you

Gordon Matta Clark holes in buildings

Such good descriptions of the city- of light mixed with rain and fruit carts and crappy apartments and weird people

55 The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.

49 what occurred that night did so because I was open to it and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that evening sometimes ran along under my mood like a secret river, in the way that all buried truths rushed along quietly in some hidden place.

30 you have the luxury of time. You re young. Young people are doing something even when they’re doing nothing. A young woman is a conduit. All she has to do is exist. You have time. Meaning don’t use it but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit. Some people might consider this passivity but I did not. I considered it living