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“People are the same all over the world, I imagine, people who react like that to their countries conspiracies: turning them into tales that are told, like children’s fables, and also into place in the memory or the imagination, a place where we go as tourists, to revive nostalgia or to try to find something we’ve lost.”
― The Shape of the Ruins
― The Shape of the Ruins
“It’s easy to weigh personal experiences against other people’s relationships, but we can’t see the ins and outs and complexities of other couples the way that we understand and live through our own.”
― Fuel the Fire
― Fuel the Fire
“You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“And I could’ve drowned in that senseless joy of standing and finding myself tall. Someone that can finally be seen in a mirror. A twin to my dad. But when I glanced back at the pile of flesh with the stretchmarks, I thought; that’s me too. Can I be everything and nothing at the same time? Extra fat, extra parts, narrow bones. A shadow you know is there but whose shape remains unseen until it emerges on concrete. I want a body that’s easy to manipulate.
What a gift that no one sees inside my mind. What a curse that no one sees inside my mind.”
― They Bloom at Night
What a gift that no one sees inside my mind. What a curse that no one sees inside my mind.”
― They Bloom at Night
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