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"this is so goddamn dense why is every action three pages worth of information" — Sep 22, 2025 09:22PM
"this is so goddamn dense why is every action three pages worth of information" — Sep 22, 2025 09:22PM
“When it came to love, we found ourselves confronting a foreign language. We did not know how to estimate or value things that were free. The things that were free – sex, conversation, the smell of grass in summer – unsettled us. We sought to commodify them and create outcomes from them. But they seemed to belong to everybody: we couldn’t keep them for ourselves.”
― Parade
― Parade
“I can give anything up, because nothing is essential when you refuse to imprison life in a narrative.”
― Boulder
― Boulder
“Sorrow holds me because it has tentacles; I am its sustenance, it stores me. I need to get out of here.”
― Boulder
― Boulder
“to be able to live your life without considering every action in the light of practical necessity seems to me an almost unacceptable privilege.”
― Parade
― Parade
“What was I thinking, dropping everything? The devastating possibility of the same old job, of a tiny room in a suburban apartment, of lovers as fleeting as shooting stars, hot to the touch one day, a distant dream the next.”
― Boulder
― Boulder
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