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I just want to lie in the sun and be certain I am loved.

“I’m always a little in love with someone…”

“I blame my mom for a lot of things. She is, in general, the reason I ended up like this.”
“Well, I like the way you ended up,” he said.

I do not want to want to be loved by strangers, but I do not want to want most of what I want.

…when someone changes a topic so abruptly, they’re dodging something specific. But to act isn’t to pry, only to be willing to listen more.

And “cringe” is what people who can’t feel things call feelings.

“Warhol was making himself the whole time. That was the real art project. The constant construction of self.”

Not just the labor, but also the raw material. Like that for Carly as well. Women are often seen as a thing that will transform him, a thing he saved to become his full self. How thrilling to meet someone like Andy, who wants things from you but not those things.

“I used to be twenty-one,” he said.
He said it like being twenty-one was a debilitating illness you only sometimes survived, which had more or less been my experience.