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Celina
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“I see the value of disappointment and partial success. But while we're talking about the whole fabric of the human expe rience, l also see the value in anger and even some level of defensiveness, which remind you to value your own life and time and perspective, and not to prostrate yourself at other people's altars.”
— Oct 13, 2026 07:06PM
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Celina
is 99% done
" All I knew was that I'd finally found the right words.
I wanted to spend the rest of my life saying them."
— Oct 16, 2026 06:09AM
I wanted to spend the rest of my life saying them."
Celina
is 99% done
"Maybe nobody else in the world agreed. Maybe we were unreliable sources now; maybe that was what it meant to be in love."
— Oct 16, 2026 06:08AM
Celina
is 90% done
“I could have looked back through the messages we’d sent, brushed hands with the ghost of what she’d felt for me.”
— Oct 15, 2026 08:36PM
Celina
is 88% done
“None of it was real. I had invented the person I’d been falling for.”
— Oct 15, 2026 05:26PM
Celina
is 80% done
“Kissing was not supposed to feel this way, I wasn't seventeen, but when I breathed in, his scent seemed to fill me, that rich, sweet smell, almond and amber, intensifying this sensation like hunger.”
— Oct 15, 2026 04:47AM
Celina
is 77% done
“This was different, this spiky, erratic feeling that had me distracted at work, that had me losing track of paragraphs halfway through a book, that had me staring into the darkness beyond the subway windows and thinking about the sight of him, messy-haired, in his apartment doorway.”
— Oct 14, 2026 08:59PM
Celina
is 77% done
“ Please come inside, please stay for hours, please find something in the corners of my life that makes you want me.”
— Oct 14, 2026 07:13PM
Celina
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“ I was the one who was going to have to speak with him for an hour, trying to ignore my own inevitable reactions to the sound of his voice”
— Oct 14, 2026 07:10PM
Celina
is 75% done
“because whatever he gave me still felt better than nothing.”
— Oct 14, 2026 01:39PM