My Absolute Darling

by Gabriel Tallent

it is important to do things right, and if that isn’t true, I don’t know what is.

if you ever get out of this it will be because you paid attention and moved carefully and did everything well.

you are bound to make mistakes, and if you are unwilling to make mistakes, you will forever be held hostage at the beginning of a thing, you have to stop being afraid,

You have to get in the practice of being swift and deliberate, or one day, hesitation will fuck you.