The Idiot
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Some messages were formally epistolary, with “Dear” and “Sincerely”; others telegraphic, all in lowercase with missing punctuation, like they were being beamed straight from people’s brains.
“When the whole world tells you you’re silly for wanting the things you want, you start to believe them. You start to think you’re not worth it. That if the things you’re waiting for do exist, they’re not for someone like you.”
― First-Time Caller
― First-Time Caller
“No, actually—” I take another step closer towards him. “I want you to kiss me.” Then there’s a brief pause. For a half a second I feel stupid and embarrassed and then Christian cocks a smile and nods once. “Yeah, okay. Can do.”
― Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing
― Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing
“You don’t mind bringing the foreigners in.’ ‘Hasn’t everyone to be born somewhere,’ Furlong said. ‘Sure wasn’t Jesus was born in Bethlehem.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“You are not who you are because of where you come from; you are who you are because of where you choose to go.”
― Under Loch and Key
― Under Loch and Key
“I want to feel something when I connect with someone. I want sparks. The good kind, you know? I want to laugh and mean it. I want goose bumps. I want to wonder what my date is thinking about and hope it might be me. I want…I want the magic.”
― First-Time Caller
― First-Time Caller
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