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“Wealth is careless – so around it, you must be careful.”
“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
“Your mom gives a shit, you know? Most adults are just hollowed out.”
“I wasn't possessed by a demon. I was the demon.”
“Love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift.”
“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”
“Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett”
“Every loss is unprecedented.”
“Trying to find something solid to hold on to in this rolling sea of thoughts”
“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle”
“My mother's footsteps Were so quiet I barely heard her leave”
“Illness is a story told in the past tense.”
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
“I, a singular proper noun, would go on, if always in a conditional tense.”
“To be alive is to be missing.”
“La vida es una serie de elecciones entre preguntas.”
“Eres tan real como cualquiera, y tus dudas te hacen más real, no menos”
“It spans the whole alphabet, because we wanted you to now you can be anything.”
“It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”