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We were like all young people in that way, in full belief that we were revolutionizing the human experience. Those older models, all failures; let us show you how real living is done!
She was a confident person. But like all confident people, it was only about 87 percent authentic. Doubt just lived on the outskirts of town instead of in the center, like it does for everyone else.
Listening to my brain was exhausting. Only now do I question my brain’s wisdom, wonder if it’s actually working in my best interest.
It can be like that for an actor. Find a character set in a distinct, interesting world and you, as an actor, can often find clearer, simpler ways to reflect their humanity.
I think we’re all just pretending to not be freaking out and you’re just having a harder time pretending right now.”
I hadn’t been cool in high school—too lanky and odd with my short hair and slacks. And yet, as far as I could tell, being cool in high school was a death sentence. No pain to fuel you later.
Black coffee was for the insane.
“Books are meant to be shared,”
Coddling wasn’t an older sister’s job, but loyalty and protection were,
age is a peculiar dysmorphia afflicting all.
How much love do you get to run away from in this life before you’re cut off for good?
“The trick of life, as I see it now, is to make what’s around you beautiful. It’ll grow from there. Took me a long time to see that.”
Broken things are beautiful. More beautiful in the end than perfect things, which are usually an illusion of some sort.
