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“This is what happens, when it feels like the weight of the world is crushing right down on you. You fear it’s going to change you forever. And you’re right. It is. It’s going to turn you into something that is both beautiful, and the most indestructible thing on the planet. I am both touched, and amused, by how apt its name is: Hope. “I relate to you,” I say to the Hope Diamond, as I stand there, staring at it. “I get what you are saying. You are the sparkliest metaphor I have ever seen.”
― How to Be Famous
― How to Be Famous
“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
― I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
― I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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