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sooooo messy

“Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer. That was Mom and me. I was always the watcher, but with my father’s eyes on me, in these years, I became the dancer.”

“Life really becomes an accumulation of losses, but this is something I hope you never have to learn.”

oh. I’m going to be sick

“Mom says we’re on The Great Adventure and that California is our religion.”

“Wynton sighed, guilt at the front door of his mind, banging on it with both fists.”

“When he wasn’t playing violin, he’d get bored. Like pour-gasoline-down-his-mouth-and-light-a-match bored. And he’d get this hungry feeling too, life-hungry, life-ravenous.”

“It was amazing how many things people said to you without actually saying them.”