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we were a riddle, this boy and i
his full name hang in my ears!
"someone could see into the heart of things and there you'd be"
but it is often the small fateful twist that alters our lives most profoundly - the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. in the endless stumble towards ourselves, we harvest the crop we are given

prepare to be sick of me bc this book is so well written I have to write down many good quotes- -"the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary"
- love is a private matter, to be nurtured and mourned, between 2 beings alone , beyond that I knew nothing. especially not of love's beginnings, of that inexplicable draw to another; why some boys could pass you by w/out notice but the next has a pull as undeniable as gravity

"But I've come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary."