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Giant canvases that glorified her naked breasts and half smile, songs rhyming Saina and wanna, unfinished novels about an unknowable girl of dreams—none of that (and she’d had all of it) was as romantic as a boyfriend who would notice that the lightbulb in her hallway had blown out and change it without even bothering to mention the favor.
It was embarrassing when adults tried to act like people.
Sometimes Charles thought that conversation must be the truest art form. In a good back-and-forth, you’re continually creating something new, something that only exists in a single present moment. Whole universes were built and destroyed in the course of a good conversation.
don’t begrudge the material loss of my birthright, but I don’t think a life of intellectual riches is too much to ask of the world! I give the world thoughtful observations and considered theses, and it gives me back a dozen Kardashians.
At the very moment when children might emerge from the uselessness of adolescence and finally take on some of the burden of being alive, that was when they blithely severed themselves at the root with one cruel, unthinking cut. Little assholes.
No one looked that attractive from below; that’s why short people should never be allowed to be photographers.
