“The Megan Pleasant week. Let’s do it. Everything in the song.” August was proposing we do the “Gave You My Heartland” week. A song that was ostensibly about different locations throughout Acadia, but was also very much about falling in
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“We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.”
― Kids of Appetite
― Kids of Appetite

“It suggests to Connell that the same imagination he used as a reader is necessary to understand real people also, and to be intimate with them.”
― Normal People
― Normal People

“I hate this idea that boys are thinking about sex nonstop and girls are thinking about - what? Stationery and garden gnomes? No.”
― Ramona Blue
― Ramona Blue

“Every great character, Iz, be it on page or screen, is multidimensional. The good guys aren't all good, the bad guys aren't all bad, and any character wholly one or the other shouldn't exist at all. Remember this when I describe the antics that follow, for though I am not a villain, I am not immune to villainy.”
― Mosquitoland
― Mosquitoland

“I love the intentional, aimless wander that comes from years of experience roaming the aisles of libraries, imagining all those who have tread before--some at a casual saunter, hands in pockets maybe, taking it all in; some frantically scanning the spines for that one book that might save their lives--and letting the mind delve the depths of a proper vanishing among books, just really good and fucking turned around.
There is no kind of lost like library lost.”
― The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik
There is no kind of lost like library lost.”
― The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik
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