“She understands by feeling–especially by feeling pain.”— Judith Thurman, from “I Became Alone: Five Women Poets,” wr. c. 1975
My pet theory is that in real life, the kid at the beginning of Jurassic Park who made fun of the ‘six-foot turkey’ never got a talking-to from Dr. Grant, and grew up to produce several of the movie’s sequels.
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“I sort of wish my texting app showed the percentage next to each person, but also sort of don’t want to know.
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I sort of wish my texting app showed the percentage next to each person, but also sort of don’t want to know.
You can tell most people don’t really assign an absolute meaning to these numbers because in some places and time periods, “billion” has meant 1,000x what it’s meant in others, and a lot of us never even noticed.
“Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.”— Ann Brashares
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My anchor to reality and the world is you which is jarring at times because our relationship is currently solely existing through texts and Skype.
I wonder what that says about me.
“I tell you, it’s strange. When I’m like this I just want to be alone. I want to stay in my own room. I’m like a cat.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”— Ray Bradbury
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reminder to myself about the process of drafting & revising:
- first drafts are for making it exist
- second drafts are for making it functional
- third drafts are for making it effective
This is the most important thing I’ve learnt in writing my novel. Have fun the first time but know your first pass isn’t going to be perfect
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“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”— André Aciman
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I used to miss desire, but that was eons ago.
I used to miss the sound of my voice,
but that was before I pulled my name
from my throat like a pit and set fire
to the field of my face.— Claire Wahmanholm, from “Where I Went Afterward,” Wilder
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“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great, strange dream.”— Jack Kerouac
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