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"I want to restart this because I started on the plane home and don’t remember the beginning" — Jan 26, 2026 09:13AM
"I want to restart this because I started on the plane home and don’t remember the beginning" — Jan 26, 2026 09:13AM
When Willie spoke again it was softer. Are you really going to do this? he said. Leave everything you have behind? Leave behind the person that loves you?
“One day and it will surprise you how soon this day will come, but one day you will wake up and feel good. It won’t last long, but then you’ll have another day where you barely remember this abjection, and another, and another, until that’s just your life. But for now, it will be hard. This is the part that’s hard.”
― Really Good, Actually
― Really Good, Actually
“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“My thinking has always been that if love, marriage, and family were intrinsically so meaningful, so exceptional, and so necessary, then we wouldn't need millennia of propaganda selling them to us.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“How many perfect autumns did a person get? Why did I seem always to be in the wrong place, listening to the wrong music?”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
“How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other’s rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries. The temporariness made it all the more important to do the right thing—to follow the right leads.”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
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