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On our way to a party. Chanel No. 19, baby blue dress. We’d stepped out on Park Avenue —both a little looped from cocktails upstairs —and the street lights had snapped on the moment we stepped out the door and we’d stopped dead and looked at each other: did we do that? The moment was so funny we both began laughing hysterically —it was like the light was pouring off us, like we could power up Park Avenue.
— Oct 16, 2025 01:40PM
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And just as music is the space between notes, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain Nile and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.
— Nov 12, 2025 02:04PM
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It’s not about the outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn’t understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.
— Nov 12, 2025 12:50PM
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The nail where your fate is liable to catch and snag
— Nov 12, 2025 12:41PM
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When I was was a boy, after my mother died, I always tried hard to hold her in my mind as I was falling asleep so maybe I’d dream of her, only I never did. Or, rather, I dreamed of her constantly, only as absence, not presence
— Nov 11, 2025 03:30PM
Ellie Dunham
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…it was not ammusing to her to see how torn-up I was over her.
— Oct 25, 2025 07:56AM
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I never had the feeling that other people listened to me half as closely; I felt like a different person in her company, a better one, could say things to her I couldn’t say to anyone else, certainly not Kitsey, who had a brittle way of deflating serious comments by making a joke or switching to another topic, or interrupting, or sometimes just pretending not to hear.
— Oct 25, 2025 07:42AM
