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the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving-and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad-or good-it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well” (p. 240).
— Aug 11, 2025 11:07PM
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is on page 178 of 720
“They were his friends, his first friends, and he understood that friendship was a series of exchanges: of affections, of time, sometimes of money, always of information. And he had no money.
He had nothing to give them, he had nothing to offer” (p. 111).
“Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?” (p. 144).
— Aug 11, 2025 02:34AM
He had nothing to give them, he had nothing to offer” (p. 111).
“Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?” (p. 144).
chanell :o(
is on page 95 of 720
“…—but in those moments he would at times find himself thinking, This is enough. This is more than I hoped. To be in New York, to be an adult, to stand on a raised platform of wood and say other people's words! — it was an absurd life, a not-life, a life his parents and his brother would never have dreamed for themselves, and yet he got to dream it for himself every day” (p. 63).
— Aug 10, 2025 10:49PM
