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The Return
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It starts, and we’re quiet for a while. Engrossed. Julie and I first watched this movie our freshman year, drunk after a bad party at a frat house. We huddled on the couch in our common room under layers of blankets. We shared a pint of
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“This was an era in which sofa beds were frequently opened and unfolded; at this age people were still floating, not entirely landed, still needing places to stay the night sometimes. They were doing what they could, crashing in other places, living extemporaneously. Soon enough, the pace would pick up, the solid matter of life would kick in. Soon enough, sofa beds would stay folded.”
― The Female Persuasion
― The Female Persuasion
“People’s marriages were like two-person religious cults, impossible to understand.”
― The Female Persuasion
― The Female Persuasion
“Somewhere in my brain each laugh, tear and lullaby becomes memory.”
― Brown Girl Dreaming
― Brown Girl Dreaming
“Everyone else has gone away. And now coming back home isn’t really coming back home at all.”
― Brown Girl Dreaming
― Brown Girl Dreaming
“These friends are giving Mireille what she wants, but she doesn’t want to be the person who wants what she wants, and so she goes on wanting inaccurately and still her eyes shine.”
― The Wanderers
― The Wanderers
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